Emancipation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Emancipation \E*man`ci*pa"tion\, n. [L. emancipatio: cf. F.
     ['e]mancipation.]
     The act of setting free from the power of another, from
     slavery, subjection, dependence, or controlling influence;
     also, the state of being thus set free; the act or process of
     emancipation, or the state thereby achieved; liberation; as,


     the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the
     emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of
     the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from
     tyranny or subjection.
  
     Syn: Deliverance; liberation; release; freedom; manumission;
          enfranchisement.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  emancipation
       n : freeing someone from the control of another; especially a
           parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor
           child

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  EMANCIPATION. An act by which a person, who was once in the power of 
  another, is rendered free. B y the laws of Louisiana, minors may be 
  emancipated. Emancipation is express or implied. 
       2. Express emancipation. The minor may be emancipated by his father, 
  or, if be has no father, by his mother, under certain restrictions. This 
  emancipation takes place by the declaration, to that effect, of the father 
  or mother, before a notary public, in the presence of two witnesses. The 
  orphan minor may, likewise, be emancipated by the judge, but not before he 
  has arrived at the full age of eighteen years, if the family meeting, called 
  to that effect, be of opinion that he is able to administer his property. 
  The minor may be emancipated against the will of his father and mother, when 
  they ill treat him excessively, refuse him support, or give him corrupt 
  example. 
       3. The marriage of the minor is an implied emancipation.
       4. The minor who is emancipated has the full administration of his 
  estate, and may pass all act's which may be confined to such administration; 
  grant leases, receive his revenues and moneys which may be due him, and give 
  receipts for the same. He cannot bind himself legally, by promise or 
  obligation, for any sum exceeding the amount of one year of his revenue. 
  When he is engaged in trade, he is considered as leaving arrived to the age 
  of majority, for all acts which have any relation to such trade. 
       5. The emancipation, whatever be the manner in. which it may have been 
  effected, may be revoked, whenever the minor contracts engagements which 
  exceed the limits prescribed by law. 
       6. By the English law, filial emancipation is recognized, chiefly, in 
  relation to the parochial settlement of paupers. See 3 T. R. 355; 6 T. R. 
  247; 8 T. R. 479; 2 East, 276; 10 East, 88.; 11 Verm. R. 258, 477. See 
  Manumission. See Coop. Justin. 441, 480; 2 Dall. Rep. 57, 58; Civil Code of 
  Louisiana, B. 1, tit. 8, c. 3; Code Civ. B. 1, tit. 10, c. 2; Diet. de 
  Droit, par Ferriere; Diet. de Jurisp. art. Emancipation. 
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  EMANCIPATION, n.  A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to
  the despotism of himself.
  
      He was a slave:  at word he went and came;
          His iron collar cut him to the bone.
      Then Liberty erased his owner's name,
          Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own.
                                                                    G.J.