Proprietary
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
During the colonial government of Pennsylvania, William Penn was called the pro-! prictary. The domain which William Penn and his family had in the state, was, during the revolutionary war, divested by the act of the 28th of June, 1779, from that family and vested in the commonwealth for the sum which the latter paid to them of one hundred and thirty thousand pounds sterling.