Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Private property; a private purse; specifically, in Roman law, that which was given by a father or master to his son, daughter, or slave, as his or her private property in civil law it embraces in its general sense all the property of which a slave or a son in his father´s power had either the use or, in the case of the latter, the ownership. Originally such persons were under an absolute incapacity of owning anything, and the peculium might in strictness be taken back at any time. It was, however, gradually made competent for a son, though under his father´s power, to hold certain kinds of property absolutely, such as the money he had made in war or in a liberal profession. In some cases the money reverted to the father on the son´s death intestate.
Wiktionary
- n. law, historical The savings of a son or a slave, with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own.
- n. A special fund for private and personal uses.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Rom. Law) The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.
- n. A special fund for private and personal uses.
Etymologies
- Latin. See peculiar. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“10 The action claiming an account of a peculium is a remedy introduced by the praetor against a master or a father.”
“The "peculium" was the sum of money which a son in his minority was allowed by his father to be in possession of.”
“The civil code of Louisiana declares: "_All that a slave possesses belongs to his master_ -- he possesses nothing of his own, except his peculium, that is to say, the sum of money or moveable estate, which”
An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans
“As the slave could generally ransom himself out of his "peculium," or "savings," if they were sufficient, the slave here either thinks, or pretends to think, that Hegio is censuring him for not taking those means, and answer, accordingly, that he has nothing to offer] [Footnote 3: _Give myself to flight_) -- Ver.”
“In Roman law slaves, who were owned as property, could also own property of their own, and all slaves in later times had a peculium, a minimum property attached to them.”
“American slavery, however, was peculiar exactly in not recognizing the peculium, for example, and accordingly the slave had no rights at all in law, because not a legal “person”.”
“The framework of the human intellect is not the peculium of an individual, but the joint work of many who are of all ages and countries.”
“The golden chain reaches from squire to Boniface, and still lower in the social scale, wherever some snug little peculium is found to nestle.”
“That foremost one of Dasarha's race also gave unto Subhadra as her peculium ten carrier-loads of first class gold possessing the splendour of fire, some purified and some in a state of ore.”
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
“The _peculium_ of Southern servants, even on the plantation, is sometimes not trifling.”
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she n.¹, A private possession; that which a particular individual owns or has been allocated; the particular concern of an individual (plural peculia).
n.², (in Roman law:) The property allowed by the paterfamilias to a family member, or a master to his slave, to hold and administer, and, within limits, to alienate, as though it were his or her own. Sep 1, 2008