peculium

How to use peculium in a sentence

• Thus the slave gets a chance of acquiring what will be as a matter of fact a peculium.

  Domesday Book and Beyond | Frederic William Maitland

• The gains of the 'filii familias Assessores' were to be protected as if they were 'castrense peculium.'

  The Letters of Cassiodorus | Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

• At present each prisoner has a peculium, or at all events it is within his power to create one.

  Old and New Paris, v. 2 | Henry Sutherland Edwards

• The institution of the peculium, or private fund, is of the first necessity for this purpose.

  Old and New Paris, v. 2 | Henry Sutherland Edwards

• The "peculium" is, of course, elastic, and there is no particular place for drawing the line in the banker's book.

  Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) | Various