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coemption|kəʊˈɛm(p)ʃən|
[ad. L. coemptiōn-em the action of purchasing together, buying up.]
1. The buying up of the whole supply of any commodity in the market.
The first quotation appears to show that Chaucer understood Boethius's coemptio as meaning ‘joint purchase’.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. iv. 15 Coempcioun þat is to seyn comune achat or bying to-gidere þat were establissed vpon people by swiche a manere imposicioun as who so bouȝte a busshel corn he moste ȝeue þe Kyng þe fifte part. Textus. Whan it was in þe soure hungry tyme þere was establissed or cried greuous and inplitable coempcioun þat..schulde..endamagen al þe prouince of compaigne. 1625Bacon Ess. Riches (Arb.) 239 Monopolies, and Coemption of Wares for Resale, where they are not restrained, are great Meanes to enrich. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. i. 18 The whole Province of Campania had like to have been ruin'd by an Imposition upon the People, which pass'd under the Name of a Coemption.
2. Roman Law. A form of civil marriage consisting in a mutual fictitious sale of the two parties. The same form of fictitious sale was also employed by women in certain ‘fiduciary’ transactions.
1677R. Dixon Two Testaments 551 Coemption, the man asking the woman if she would be willing to be the mother of the Family, and she answering she is willing; and the Woman asking the Man..and he answering he is willing. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 226/2. 1864 Maine Anc. Law v. (1876) 154 The higher form of civil marriage, which was called Coemption. 1880Muirhead tr. Instit. Gaius i. §115 a, Fiduciary coemption was also had recourse to of old to enable a woman to make a will.
Hence coemptional, a. [L. coemptiōnāl-is], relating to coemption. coemptioˈnator [L.], one who enters into a coemption. coˈemptive a., of the nature of coemption.
1656Blount Glossogr., Coemptional, which is often in buying, or a buying together. 1875Poste Gaius i. comm. (ed. 2) 107 Bondage was the result of mancipation by a parent or coemptionator. Ibid. i. § 123 If it is asked in what respect coemptive conveyance differs from mancipation, the answer is this, that coemption does not reduce to a servile condition. 1880Muirhead tr. Instit. Gaius i. §118 She..stands to her coemptionator in the position of a daughter who is married to him. |