JOCALIA

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  JOCALIA. Jewels; this term was formerly more properly applied to those 
  ornaments which women, although married, call their own. When these jocalia 
  are not suitable to her degree, they are assets for the payment of debts. 1 
  Roll. Ab. 911. Vide Paraphernalia.