Definition of "coemption" []

• The buying of the entire supply of a commodity (noun)
• A form of civil marriage (in Roman law) in which a fictitious sale of the man and wife took place (noun)

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• "Monopolies, and coemption of wares for re – sale, where they are not restrained, are great means to enrich; especially if the party have intelligence, what things are like to come into request, and so store himself beforehand."
• "Monopolies, and coemption of6 wares for re-sale, where they are not restrained, are great means to enrich; especially if the party have intelligence what things are like to come into request, and so store himself beforehand."
• "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."