A dictionary of Greek and Roman . hich hespeaks of the legal fiction that was afterwards in-troduced into the Formula by which the publicanirecovered the vectigalia, that the thing seized wasonly taken as a security and was redeemed bypayment of the sum of money in respect of whichit was seized. In case of non-payment, there musthowever have been a power of sale, and according^this pignoris capio resembled in all respects apignus proper, except as to the want of consent onthe part of the person whose property was does not appear whether this legis actio was theorigin of
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . hich hespeaks of the legal fiction that was afterwards in-troduced into the Formula by which the publicanirecovered the vectigalia, that the thing seized wasonly taken as a security and was redeemed bypayment of the sum of money in respect of whichit was seized. In case of non-payment, there musthowever have been a power of sale, and according^this pignoris capio resembled in all respects apignus proper, except as to the want of consent onthe part of the person whose property was does not appear whether this legis actio was theorigin of the law of pledge, as subsequently de-veloped ; but it seems not improbable. (Gaius, , &c. ; Cic. Verr. iii. 11 ; Pignoris capio, 10.) [] PERA, dim. PERULA (^pa), a wallet, madeof leather, worn suspended at the side by rusticsand by travellers to carry their provisions (Mart,xiv. 81) and adopted in imitation of them by theCynic philosophers. (,Diog. Laert. vi. 13 ; Brunck,Anal. i. 223, ii. 22, 28 ; Auson. Epig. 53.) The. preceding woodcut is the representation of a goat-herd with his staff and wallet from the column ofTheodosius, formerly at Constantinople. (Menes-trier, Description de la Col. Hist. Par. 1702. ) [J. Y.] PERDUELLIO. [Majestas, p. 725.]PERDUELLIONIS DUUMVIRI were twoofficers or judges appointed for the purpose of try-ing persons who were accused of the crime ofperduellio. Niebuhr believes that they were thesame as the quaestores parricidii, and Walter ( R om. Rechts, p. 24. note 19) agrees with him,though in a later part of his work (p. 855. note20) he admits that they were distinct. It ap-pears from a comparison of the following passages,— Liv. i. 26 ; Dig. i. tit. 2. s. 2. § 23 ; Fest. s. and Sororium,— either that some of theancient writers confound the duumviri perduel-lionis and the quaestores parricidii, or that, atleast during the kingly period, they were thesame persons ; for in giving an account of thesam
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