KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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PEDIS POSSESSIO

PEOULIUM

of money, or of something by which money, or something of money value, may be acquired. Green v. Hudson River R, Co., 32 Barb. (N. Y.) 33.

parishes dispersed through the province of Canterbury, in the midst of other dioceses, which are exempt from the ordinary's juris diction, and subject to the metropolitan only. PECUL.IUM. Lat In Roman law. Such private property as might be held by a slave, wife, or son who was under the patria po testas, separate from the property of the father or master, and in the personal dispos al of the owner. — Peculium castrense. In Roman law. That kind of peouhum which a son acquired in war, or from his connection with the camp, (castrwn.) Heinecc. Elem. lib. 2, tit. 9, § 474. Originally and radi cally, property in cattle, or cattle themselves. So called because the wealth of the ancients consisted in cattle. Co. Litt. 2076. In the civil law. Property In general, real or personal; anything that Is actually the subject of private property. In a nar rower sense, personal property; fungible things. In the strictest sense, money. This has become the prevalent, and almost the ex clusive, meaning of the word. In old English law. Goods and chat tels. Spelman. —Pecunia constituta. In Roman law. Mon ey owing (even upon a moral obligation) up on a day being fixed {constitute) for its pay ment, became recoverable upon the implied promise to pay on that day, in an action called "de pecunia constituta," the implied promise not amounting (of course) to a stipulatio. Brown. —Pecunia non nnmerata. In the civil law. Money not paid. The subject of an exception or plea in certain cases. Inst. 4, 13, 2.— Pecu nia nnmerata. Money numbered or counted out; i. e., given in payment of a debt.— Pecu nia sepulchralis. Money anciently paid to the priest at the opening of a grave for the good of the deceased's soul.— Pecunia trajectitia. 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, accord ing 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. Interest does not necessarily arise from this loan, but when is stipulated for it is termed "nauticum faenus," (maritime interest,) and, be cause of the risk which the creditor assumes, he is permitted to receive a higher interest than usual. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 433. 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. In English ecclesiasti cal practice. Causes arising from the withhold ing of ecclesiastical dues, or the doing or neg lecting some act relating to the church, whereby some damage accrues to the plaintiff. 3 Bl. Comm. 88.— Pecuniary consideration. See CONSIDEEATION.— Pecuniary damages. See DAMAGES.— Pecuniary legacy. See LEGACY. —Pecuniary loss. A pecuniary loss is a loss PECUNIA. Lat. PECUNIARY. Monetary; relating to money; consisting of money. —Pecuniary causes.

PECUS.

Lat In Roman law. Cattle; a

beast Under a bequest of pecudes were in cluded oxen and other beasts of burden. Dig. 32, 81, 2. In old English law. A toll or tax paid by travelers for the privilege of passing, on foot or mounted, through a forest or other protected place. Spelman. PEDAGE. PEDANEUS. Lat In Roman law. At the foot; in a lower position; on the ground. See JUDEX PEDANEUS. Itinerant traders; persons who sell small wares, which they carry with them in traveling about from place to place. In re Wilson, 19 D. C. 341, 12 L. R. A. 624; Com. v. Farnum, 114 Mass. 270; Hall v. State, 39 Fla. 637, 23 South. 119; Graffty v. Rushville, 107 Ind. 502, 8 N. E. 609, 57 Am. Rep. 128; In re Pringle, 67 Kan. 364, 72 Pac. 864. 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. PEDDLERS. and Scotch law. Dusty-foot A term ap plied to Itinerant merchants, chapmen, or peddlers who attended fairs. In criminal law. The un natural carnal copulation of male with male, particularly of a man with a boy; a form of sodomy; (q. v.) Lineage; line of ancestors from which a person descends; genealogy. An account or register of a line of ancestors. Family relationship. Swink v. French, 11 Lea (Tenn.) 80, 47 Am. Rep. 277; People v. Mayne, 118 Cal. 516, 50 Pac. 654, 62 Am. St. Rep. 256. Lat In old crim inal law. The cutting off a foot; a punish ment anciently inflicted instead of death. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 38. Lat 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. Waggoner v. Hastings, 5 Pa. 303. Lat A foothold; an actual possession. To constitute adverse possession there must be pedis possessio, or a substantial inclosure. 2 Bouv. Inst. no. PEDERASTY. PEDIGREE. PEDIS ABSCHSSIO. PEDIS POSITIO. PEDIS POSSESSIO. PEDAGIUM. L. Lat Pedage, (g. v.) PEDE PULVEROSUS. In old English