transfer (subs.) Copy link Outline I. In gen. senseII. Specially, in legal sense • transfer (subs.): I. In gen. sense: translātio: Cic. Off. 1, 14, 43 (tr. pecuniarum a justis dominis ad alienos). More freq. expr. by verb: v. preced. art. II. Specially, in legal sense: t. of property: mancĭpium gen. mancipi (formal contract of sale): esp. in phrr. mancipio dare, to effect a t. (of the seller); and mancipio accipere, to become the owner of property by such process: v. Smith's Lat. Dict. s. v.