10 The action claiming an account of a peculium is a remedy introduced by the praetor against a master or a father.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

The golden chain reaches from squire to Boniface, and still lower in the social scale, wherever some snug little peculium is found to nestle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [When A Map Is Worth a Thousand Words « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

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 liberty with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference

Largitur peculium, omnem in tergo thensaurum gerit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives] Reference

Bride, the peculium of; modes of selecting; dress of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society] Reference

Even the slave at his master's sufferance might enjoy a peculium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Each had a share of copra, her peculium, to dispose of for herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the South Seas] Reference

The military and quasi-military peculium became a distinct, separate property.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

Codex chartaceus, in folio marjori, ff. 262, sec. xvii.; olim peculium coll. soc.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference

See the gradual enlargement and security of the filial peculium in the Institutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference

Of the mode of ascertaining the amount of a peculium we will speak in its proper place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Iunia their manumitters kept their property, like that of slaves, as a kind of peculium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

A child under power might have the administration of separate goods called his peculium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

'I thank ye baith, my good lads,' said the Baron, 'but I will not infringe upon your peculium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference

Whether the tax enters into the peculium of the prince or serves to liquidate a common debt, it is in.    From Wordnik.com.  [System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery] Reference

` ` I thank ye baith, my good lads, '' said the Baron, ` ` but I will not infringe upon your peculium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waverley] Reference

And from all I can learn, I may have the Florida back again for my own private yacht or peculium, unless she goes to Sta.    From Wordnik.com.  [If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact] Reference

As used in the phrase "peculiar people" in 1 Pet. 2: 9, is derived from the Lat. peculium, and denotes, as rendered in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Thus, though it is but a single action which is brought in respect of peculium and of conversion to uses, it has two condemnatory clauses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

With pride enough will I transmit this mournful, noble peculium: and after that, as I perceive, such chivalrous international doings must cease between us.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.] Reference

Iam nunc secunda mihi facis. scibam huic te capitulo hodie. facturum satis pro iniuria; quamquam ego sum sordidatus, frugi tamen sum, nec potest peculium enumerari.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives] Reference

448 The peculium was fully developed in the time of Plautus and Terence.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

142 The peculium of the slave, property which he was allowed to possess but only by the sufferance of the master.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Source Book for Ancient Church History] Reference