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Meaning of Pecunia

(Lat.) In civil law. Property, real or personal, corporeal or incorporeal. Things in general, omnes res. So the law of the Twelve Tables said, uti quisque paterfamilias legasset super pecunia tutelave rei suae, ita jus esto, in whatever, manlier a father of a family may have disposed of his property, or of the tutorship of his things, let this dispostion be law. 1 Lee. Elm. 288. But Paulus (liber 5, D. de Verb. Signif.) gives it a narrower sense than res, which he says means what is not included within patrimony; pecunia what is. Vicat. In a still narrower sense, it means those things only which have measure, weight, and number and most usually strictly money. Id. The general sense of property occurs, also, in the old English law. Leg. Edw. Confess, c. 10. Flocks were the first riches of the ancients; and it is from pecus that the words pecunia, pecidium, and peculatns are derived. In old English law, pecunia often retains the force of pecus. So often in Domesday Book, pastura ibidem pecuniae villae, i. e., pasture for cattle of the village. So vivae pecuniae, live stock. Leg. Edw. Confess, c. 10; Emendat. Willielmi Primi ad Leges Edw. Confess.; Cowell.

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Concept of “Pecunia”

Traditional meaning of pecunia in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Cattle; property; personal property; fungible goods; money. Pecunia munerata: counted money. Pecunia non numerata: money not paid. Pecunia trajectitia: a loan of money on a ship or cargo; bottomry; foenus nauticum.

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Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Pecunia”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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