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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.