PEONIA

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

  PEONIA, Spanish law. A portion of land which was formerly given to a simple 
  soldier, on the conquest of a country. It is now a quantity of land, of 
  different size in different provinces. In the Spanish possessions in 
  America, it measured fifty feet front and one hundred feet deep. 2 White's 
  Coll. 49; 12 Pet. 444, notes.