Pecuniary

That which relates to money.

That which relates to money. A pecuniary provision does not apply to a provision in an agreement for alimony specifically dividing personal property of the parties; Davis v. Davis, 61 Me. 395. The exemption from registration of annuities without regard to pecuniary consideration was held to include the case of a grantee’s giving up his business to the grantor; 4 Term 790. Bank notes; 3 id. 554; 1 B. & P. 208; checks; 8 Term 328; and a verbal promise to pay a debt in full; Phelps v. Thomas, 6 Gray (Mass.) 327; are pecuniary considerations. But the assignment of a leasehold interest is not; 2 B. & B. 702; or and of a contingent interest In the corpus; 2 El. & Bl. 374; 2 B. & C. 875.

Monetary; relating to money; consisting of money.

— Pecuniary causes. In English ecclesiastical practice. Causes arising from the withholding of ecclesiastical dues, or the doing or neglecting some act relating to the church, whereby some damage accrues to the plaintiff. 3 Bl. Comm. 88.

— Pecuniary consideration. See Consideration.

— Pecuniary damages. See Damages.

— Pecuniary legacy. See Legacy.

— Pecuniary loss. A pecuniary loss ls a loss of money, or of something by which money, or something of money value, may be acquired. Green v. Hudson River Co., 32 Barb. (N. Y.) 33.

Monetary; pertaining to money. Pecuniary legacy: a legacy of a sum of money; a gift of a sum of money by will.

In English ecclesiastical law. Pecuniary causes: causes arising from the withholding of ecclesiastical dues, or the doing or neglecting of some act relating to the church.

Y.5 Pertaining to money; monetary. A pecuniary loss is of money or of something by which money, or a thing of money value, may be acquired.^ In Rhode Island, a divorce may be had from a husband who, without cause, gi'ossly or wantonly and cruelly refuses or neglects to provide suitable maintenance for his wife, he being of " sufficient pecuniary ability " to make such provision. The reference is to the possession of means in property to provide the necessary maintenance, not to capacity for acquiring such means by labor.' See Circumstances, 2; -Consideration, 2; Interest, 1; Money; Responsible.

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-

That which relates to money. Pecuniary punishment, is one which imposes a fine on a convict; a pecuniary legacy is one which entitles the legatee to receive a sum of money, and not a specific chattel.