For when she makes a contrived sale with her husband, so as to take the status of a daughter, she is said to have made a contrived sale for the purpose of marriage. He is called the 'fiduciary guardian' as will appear below. But, on the proposal of the late emperor Hadrian, the Senate remitted this requirement of making a contrived sale. For if for any reason at all a wife should become subordinate to her husband, the received opinion is that she acquires the rights of a daughter. All children, whether male or female, who are in the power of their father can be mancipated by him in the same way as slaves can.
Marital subordination translates quae in manu nostra sunt.
Respectively usus , confarreatio, and coemptio. By this method, the woman did not free herself from the power of her husband but avoided entering it at all and instead remained in the power of her father, at his command, or, if she had been emancipated or her father was dead, her own.