(n.) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant).
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Pecuniary
Definition:
(a.) Relating to money; monetary; as, a pecuniary penalty; a pecuniary reward.
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(1) Recommendations were also put forward that no damages should be permitted for non-pecuniary loss during the first 3 months and that the full value of the social security benefits should be deductible from all tort damages.
(2) Mark Stephens, a media lawyer with London firm Finers Stephens Innocent, said that if Werritty had handed out business cards, he might have been "obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception" if he benefited by allowing others to assume he was Fox's real adviser.
(3) Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006 makes it a criminal offence, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to dishonestly make a false representation with the intention of putting someone at risk of pecuniary loss or with the intention of making a pecuniary gain for another.
(4) He says he has forgotten what gifts were declared on his pecuniary interests register but suggested you declare everything unless it is well below the threshhold.
(5) No one could’ve been more suitable for this role than he, who bubbled away his evenings in Simpson’s in the Strand or the Cafe Royal, who spent royally when he had money and borrowed regally when he didn’t, and whose contacts with the working class – with the exception of servants – were at once amatory and pecuniary.
(6) The prime minister’s pecuniary interest register does not list his daughter’s scholarship.
(7) It remains unclear why, having checked the value of this box, the premier did not also check the value of the "wonderful wine" he had received from Di Girolamo, nor declare it in his pecuniary interests register.
(8) The company could be prosecuted, suggests McCabe, for "possible offences committed against the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, as well as conspiracy and obtaining a pecuniary advantage".
(9) David Howarth, a former Lib Dem MP and a law lecturer at Clare college Cambridge, writing on theguardian.com , suggested: "Section 2 of the Fraud Act 2006 makes it a criminal offence, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to dishonestly make a false representation with the intention of putting someone at risk of pecuniary loss or with the intention of making a pecuniary gain for another.
(10) On the same date, according to her pecuniary interests register , she had complimentary tickets to Opera Australia’s New Year’s Eve celebrations.
(11) But according to the statement of ministerial standards , written by Tony Abbott, “ministers must have regard to the pecuniary and other private interests of members of their immediate families, to the extent known to them, as well as their own interests, in considering whether a conflict or apparent conflict between private interests and official duty arises”.
(12) This group denounced the practice of doctors attending normal births for pecuniary reasons, thus displacing midwives.
(13) In particular, there is a great need to investigate the cost-effectiveness of therapies and then persuade physicians, via pecuniary and nonpecuniary incentives, to behave in a manner which leads to more equitable and efficient health care outcomes.
(14) If Palmer wins his own lower house seat of Fairfax, his first challenge as a member is filling out the pecuniary interest register, where he has to declare company directorships, shares, property, incentives and gifts.
(15) "The finding of a violation constitutes in itself sufficient just satisfaction for any non-pecuniary damage sustained by the applicant," it said.
(16) Monday evening’s letter said the humanitarian aid would be fiscally neutral, not affecting the budget, that aid to the poor would be “non-pecuniary”, for example by issuing food stamps.
(17) Ministers must have regard to the pecuniary and other private interests of members of their immediate families, to the extent known to them, as well as their own interests, in considering whether a conflict or apparent conflict between private interests and official duty arises,” the standards say.
(18) Even major changes in reimbursement policies will not affect the relative pecuniary attractiveness of procedure-oriented medical subspecialties.
(19) On Thursday the prime minister’s office maintained that the scholarship did not need to be declared on Abbott’s pecuniary interests register as it was “not a gift, it is an award based on merit and disclosure is not required”.
(20) The registrar of the parliamentary pecuniary interest registers, Claressa Surtees, told New Matilda the disclosure rules for parliamentarians did not provide a comprehensive list about what should or should not be disclosed.