coemption

/ kəʊˈɛmpʃən /

noun

1. the buying up of the complete supply of a commodity

Word History and Origins

Origin of coemption¹

C14: from Latin coemptiōnem a buying together

Example Sentences

Other prizes in the U.S. dramatic coemption went to Jamie Dack for directing “Palm Trees and Power Lines.”

From Los Angeles Times

Coemption, ko-emp′shun, n. the purchasing of the whole of a commodity: in Roman law, a mode of marriage under the fiction of a mutual sale.

From Project Gutenberg

By the religious marriage or Confarreation; by the higher form of civil marriage, which was called Coemption; and by the lower form, which was termed Usus, the Husband acquired a number of rights over the person and property of his wife, which were on the whole in excess of such as are conferred on him in any system of modern jurisprudence.

From Project Gutenberg

By the Confarreation, Coemption, and Usus, the woman passed in manum viri, that is, in law she became the Daughter of her husband.

From Project Gutenberg

According to the custom of antiquity, he bought his bride of her parents, and she fulfilled the coemption by purchasing, with three pieces of copper, a just introduction to his house and household deities.

From Project Gutenberg