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Pecuniary Loss

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A loss of money, or of that by which money or something of money value may be acquired.

32 Barb. (N. Y.) 33.

PECUS (Lat.; pi. pecudes). In the Roman law. Cattle; a beast. Under a bequest of pecudes were included oxen and other beasts of burden.

Dig. 32. 81. 2.