manumissive

Example Sentences

• "No Manumiſſive Corbon yet vvas knovvn / To Superſedeas a Son, for he / Still gave, yet ne'r eſteem'd himſelf as free; […]"
• "If a right was to be acquired on the expiration of a certain period, it was acquired as soon as the last day of the period began; for instance, if the period was a year, the right was acquired immediately after midnight of the 364th day. This applied to acquisition of ownership by usucapion,[…], acquisition of testamentary capacity by attaining to years of puberty,[…], acquisition of manumissive capacity, […]"
• "[W]e now have agreements signed by many chiefs—the Hadhramaut Sultans included—declaring that the slave trade is illegal, and the Hadhramaut Sultans have also agreed that any slave who asks for his freedom shall have it. […] In 1938 a Slavery (Regulation) Decree was enacted by His Highness the Sultan for the Qu'aiti State which gives statutory effect to the arrangements described above and contains other provisions of a manumissive character."
• "He wants employment. Give him plenty to do, and it resolves itself into a simple equation, leaving him no time for the manumissive luxury we have alluded to."
• "Elinor [Glyn] herself would have been both surprised and indignant […] if she could have seen that Three Weeks appealed to the same renascent and manumissive instinct that had also welcomed, for example, [Sigmund] Freud. She and Freud, of course, were poles apart in ideals, in methods, in aspirations; […]"
• "[A] popular upsurge needs a committed light to lead a united movement. That leading light, whose value-laden vision guided the nation's manumissive march with selfless steps, was frail, firm Jaya Prakash Narain."