PARAGIUM

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

  PARAGIUM. A Latin term which signifies equality. It is derived from the 
  adjective par, equal, and made a substantive by the addition of agium; 1 
  Tho. Co. Litt. 681. 
       2. In the ecclesiastical law, by paragium is understood the portion 
  which a woman gets on her marriage. Ayl. Par. 336.