draft a will. Cum manu was procured in one of three ways: confarreatio, coemptio and usus. The ritual of confarreatio, a kind of sacrifice made to Jupiter...

 33–34. Frier & McGinn 2004, pp. 20, 53, 54. Other marriage forms include coemptio' (marriage "by purchase"), and usus (marriage recognised through the couple's...

transferred Roman women from one pater familias to another. The first, coemptio, represented the purchase of the bride. This oldest form of marriage required...

farreus); coemptio, "by purchase"; and by usus (habitual cohabitation). Patricians always married by confarreatio, while plebeians married by coemptio or usus:...

[including a wife] undergoes a formal and entirely fictitious 'sale' (coemptio) in which she sells herself to [a] third party, who then remancipates her...

kinds: confarreatio, symbolized by the sharing of bread (panis farreus); coemptio, "by purchase"; and usus, "by mutual cohabitation". Patricians always married...

would thence exhibit an oath structure consisting in an archaic form of coemptio: "Swears for the gods he who buys me": mitat = *emitat (the future bridegroom...

own right. Women could make wills through a process of fictional sale (coemptio), until the reign of Hadrian, when they were given the ability to make...