Propriety
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In Massachusetts colonial ordinance of 1741 is nearly, if not precisely, equivalent to property.
Com. v. Alger, 7 Cash.' (Mass.) 53, 70.
In old English law
Property. "Propriety in action; propriety in possession; mixed propriety."
Hale, Anal. § 26.