immunitas (general term, rei or a re; muneris, omnium rerum; malorum, Lampr., Commod., 14; a tributis, Suet.): vacatio (rei or a re, especially militiae; also sumtus, laboris, rerum omnium, a causis, all Cic.; ab belli administratione, Liv.). To grant anybody an exemption, [Vid: To EXEMPT]: ☞ with vacatio, the number of years stands in the genitive; e.g., quinquennii vacatio militiae. To decree to anybody an exemption from military service for five years, alicui quinquennii militiae vacationem decernere (Liv.). It is false that they paid for an exemption, falsum est ob vacationem pretium datum (Cic.): to pray for an exemption, deprecari vacationem: to enjoy an exemption from anything, vacationem or immunitatem rei habere: they alone enjoy an exemption from the payment of tribute, from military service, from every public burden, neque tributa una cum reliquis pendunt; militiae vacationem omniumque rerum habent immunitatem. More under To EXEMPT.