Peculium

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Peculium \Pe*cu"li*um\, n. [L. See {Peculiar}.]
     1. (Rom. Law) The saving of a son or a slave with the
        father's or master's consent; a little property or stock
        of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.
        --Burrill.
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     2. A special fund for private and personal uses.
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              A slight peculium only subtracted to supply his
              snuff box and tobacco pouch.          --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PECULIUM, civil law. The savings which were made by a son or slave with the 
  consent of his father or master. Inst. 2, 9, 1; Dig. 15, 1, 5, 3; Poth. ad 
  Pand. lib. 50, tit. 17, c. 2, art. 3. 
       2. A master is not entitled to the extraordinary earnings of his 
  apprentice, which do not interfere with his services so as to affect his 
  master's profits. An apprentice was therefore decreed to be entitled to 
  salvage in opposition to his master's claim for it. 2 Cranch, 270.