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(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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(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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