PARAPHERNALI

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

  PARAPHERNALIA. The name given to all such things as a woman has a right to 
  retain as her own property, after her husband's death; they consist 
  generally of her clothing, jewels, and ornaments suitable to her condition, 
  which she used personally during his life. 
       2. These, when not extravagant, she has a right to retain even against 
  creditors; and, although in his lifetime the husband might have given them 


  away, he cannot bequeath such ornaments and jewels by his will. 2 Bl. Com. 
  430; 2 Supp. to Ves. jr. 376; 5 Com. Dig. 230; 2 Com. Dig. 212; 11 Vin. Ab. 
  176; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 8996-7.