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From now on — if the law is passed, which I suppose it will be — the State will be able to recover damages or misappropriated property or peculated funds from their ultimate recipients as well as from the original culprits.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Recovery of peculated property is now extended to the ultimate recipients as well as the original thieves — anyone convicted in the court cannot address any public meeting anywhere — men of the Latin Rights who successfully prosecute a malefactor will be rewarded with the full Roman citizenship — and there is now a recess inserted into the middle of the trial proceedings.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Helpless beyond measure in all the duties of practical statesmanship, its members or their dependants have given proof of remarkable energy in the single department of peculation; and there, not content with the slow methods of the old-fashioned defaulter, who helped himself only to what there was, they have contrived to steal what there was going to be, and have peculated in advance by a kind of official post-obit.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Helpless beyond measure in all the duties of practical statesmanship, its members or their dependants have given proof of remarkable energy in the single department of peculation; and there, not content with the slow methods of the old-fashioned defaulter, who helped himself only to what there was, they have contrived to steal what there was going to be, and have peculated in advance by a kind of official post-obit.

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855

I thought it right we should show that his officers, if they professed to obey his orders, had peculated.

The Discovery of the Source of the Nile John Hanning Speke 1845

Not that he had peculated on the public treasury; his good sense and pride forbade a resort to this manœuvre of weak minds; but by resorting to loans and the costly operations of the bank, to provide the funds of war, and being still connected with the house to which he addressed himself for much the greater part of his negotiations.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

"He had never bartered promotion in the army for bribes, nor peculated in the supplies of provisions for the army." l.v. c. xxxiv.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765

Therefore the Commons did well and wisely, when they sent us here, not to attack this or that servant who may have peculated, but to punish the man who was sent to reform abuses, and to make Bengal furnish to the world a brilliant example of British justice.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

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“He had never bartered promotion in the army for bribes, nor peculated in the supplies of provisions for the army.” l.v. c.xxxiv. —

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