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Pecunia

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I Originally and radically, property in cattle, or cattle themselves.

In old English law

Pecunia numerata: counted money f money paid by count or tala In the civil law. Property in general, real or personal; any thing that is the subject of private properly; in a narrower sense, personal property, fungible things; in the strictest sense, money. Pecunia non numerata: money not paid. Pecunia trajectitia: money carried across the sea; money lent to sea, or advanced on the hazard of the lender, to carry over the sea.