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2 definitions found 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. [1913 Webster] 2. A special fund for private and personal uses. [1913 Webster] A slight peculium only subtracted to supply his snuff box and tobacco pouch. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 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.
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