[POMPONIUS libro quarto ad Quintum Mucium. ] §15.2.3.prDefinitione peculii interdum utendum est etiam, si seruus in rerum natura esse desiit et actionem praetor de peculio intra annum dat: nam et tunc et accessionem et decessionem quasi peculii recipiendam (quamquam iam desiit morte serui uel manumissione esse peculium), ut possit ei accedere ut peculio fructibus uel pecorum fetu ancillarumque partubus et decedere, ueluti si mortuum sit animal uel alio quolibet modo perierit.
[POMPONIUS in the fourth book on Quintus Mucius.] Sometimes we must also make use of the definition of peculium even if the slave has ceased to exist and the praetor grants the action concerning the peculium within a year; for even then, both the accession and the decession, so to speak, of the peculium must be admitted (although it has already ceased to be a peculium by the death or manumission of the slave), so that there can be added to it, as to a peculium, by fruits or the offspring of cattle and the offspring of female slaves, and also decrease, as, for example, if an animal has died or perished in any other way.