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Quis Erus Est?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

A. S. Gratwick
Affiliation:
University of St. Andrews

Abstract

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Type
Review Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1973

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References

1 Gaius, Inst. i. 119. The words cited above are the complete formula as used in a uindicatio where it is a question of simply asserting one's mancipium or right of ownership; when ownership is being transferred with money, the mancipator, holding a bronze balance, strikes it with a bronze coin (a symbolic price), pronouncing the formula and adding isque mihi emptus esto hoc aere aeneaque libra.