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• 10 The action claiming an account of a peculium is a remedy introduced by the praetor against a master or a father.
• The golden chain reaches from squire to Boniface, and still lower in the social scale, wherever some snug little peculium is found to nestle.
• 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.
• Roman slavery, yet in this respect, it was far milder than yours; for its subjects could acquire property (their peculium); and frequently did they purchase their...