Pecuniary
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Monetary; in or in the ecclesiastical court, which arise from the withholding ecclesiastical dues, or the doing or neglecting some act whereby some damage accrues to the plaintiff. These causes are contrasted by Blackstone with causes matrimonial and testamentary, which were formerly also matters of ecclesiastical cognizance.
3 Bl. Com. 88. By Stat. 20 & 21 Vict. ch.
77, passed in 1857, the testamentary jurisdiction was transferred to the court of probate; and by Stat, 20 & 21 Vict. ch. 85, passed in the same year, the matrimonial jurisdiction was transferred to the court for divorce and matrimonial causes. Brown. PEDAGE; PEDAGIUM. Old English and Latin terms for a charge exacted in ancient times for the privilege of passing, on foot or on horseback, through any forest or tract of country. Somewhat analogous to the current expression, paying one's footing.
PEDIGrBEE.
The statement of a person's descent and family relationships; the history of a family in successive generations. Pedigree includes not only descent and relationship, but also the facts of birth, marriage, and death, and the times these events happened. American Life Ins. Co../.
Rosenagle, 77 Pa. St. 507.
PEDIS POSITIO; PEDIS POSSES-