Emancipate

e-man'-se-pate, v.a. to set free from servitude by the voluntary act of the proprietor; to set free from bondage, restraint, restriction, or subjection of any kind; to set a son free from subjection to his father and destroy the peculiar relation subsisting between them by law [Rom. Law]: a. set at liberty (L. e, and mancipium, purchase of a thing by a symbolical taking of it in the hand and weighing out the money(from manus, the hand, and capio, to take).