Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

FECUNIA DICITUR A PECUS, ETC. 882

PEERS

for its payment, became recoverable upon the implied promise to pay on that day, in an ac tion called "depecunia constitute," the im plied promise not amounting (of course) to a stipulatio. Brown. Pecunia dicitur a pecus, omnes enim veterum divitise in animalibus consis tebant. Co. Litt. 207. Money (pecunia) is so called from cattle, (pecus,) because all the wealth of our ancestors consisted in cattle. PECUNIA NON NUMEEATA. Lat. In the civil law. Money not paid. The sub ject of an exception or plea in certain cases. Inst. 4, 13,2. PECUNIA NUMERATA. Money numbered or counted out; i. e., given in pay ment of a debt. PECUNIA SEPULCHBALIS. Money anciently paid to the priest at the opening of a grave for the good of the deceased's soul. PEQUNIA TBAJECTITIA. In the civil law. A loan in money, or in wares which the debtor purchases with the money to be sent by sea, and whereby the creditor, according to the contract, assumes the risk of the loss from the day of the departure of the vessel till the day of her arrival at her port of destination. Inteiest does not necessarily arise from this loan, but when it is stipulat ed for it is termed "nauticum foenus," (maritime interest,) and, because of the risk which the creditor assumes, he is permitted to receive a higher interest than usual. Mackeld. Bom. Law, § 433. PECUNIARY. Monetary; relating to money; consisting of money. PECUNIARY CAUSES. In English ecclesiastical practice. Causes arising from the withholding of ecclesiastical dues, or the doing or neglecting some act relating to the church, whereby some damage accrues to the plaintiff. 3 Bl. Comm. 88. PECUNIARY LEGACY. A legacy of a 9pm of money; a gift of a sum of money by will, Otherwise called a " general legacy." 2 Bl. Comm. 512. PECUNIARY LOSS. A pecuniary loss is a loss of money, or of something by which money, or something of money value, may be acquired. 32 Barb. 33. PECUS. In Roman law. Cattle; a beast. Under a bequest of pecudes were included oxen and other beasts of burden. Dig. 32, 81,2.

PEDAGE. In old English law. A tol] or tax paid by travelers for the privilege of passing, on foot or mounted, through a forest or other protected place. Spelman. PEDAGIUM. L. Lat. Pedage, (q. v.) PEDANEUS. Lat. In Roman law. At the foot; in a lower position; on the ground. See JUDEX PEDANEUS. PEDDLERS. Itinerant traders; persons who sell small wares, which they carry with them in traveling about from place to place. Persons, except those peddling newspapers, Bibles, or religious tracts, who sell, or offer to sell, at retail, goods, wares, or other com modities, traveling from place to place, in the street, or through different parts of the coun try. 12 U. S. St. at Large, p. 458, § 27. PEDE PULVEROSUS. In old English and Scotch law. Dusty-foot. A term ap plied to itinerant merchants, chapmen, oi peddlers who attended fairs. PEDIGREE. Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person descends; genealogy. An account or register of a line of ancestors. Family relationship. PEDIS ABSCISSIO. In old criminal law. The cutting off a foot; a punishment anciently inflicted instead of death. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38. PEDIS POSITIO. In the civil and old English law. A putting or placing of the foot. A term used to denote the possession of lands by actual corporal entry upon them. 15 Johns. 7; 5 Pa. St. 303. PEDIS POSSESSIO. A foothold; an actual possession. To constitute adverse possession there must be pedis possessio, or a substantial inclosure. 2 Bouv. Inst. no. 2193; 2 tfott & McC. 343. FEDONES. Foot-soldiers. PEERAGE. The rank or dignity of a peer or nobleman. Also the body of nobles taken collectively. PEERESS. A woman who belongs to the nobility, which may be either in her own right or by right of marriage. PEERS. In feudal law. The vassals of a lord who sat in his court as judges of their co-vassals, and were called "peers," as being each other's equals, or of the same condition. The nobility of Great Britain, being the lords temporal having seats in parliament, and including dukes, marquises, earls, vis counts, and barons*

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