PRECIPUT

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

  PRECIPUT, French law. An object which is ascertained by law or the agreement 
  of the parties, and which is first to be taken out of property held in 
  common, by one having a right, before a partition takes place. 
       2. The preciput is an advantage, or a principal part to which some one 
  is entitled, praecipium jus, which is the origin of the word preciput. Dict. 
  de Jur. h.t.; Poth. h.t. By preciput is also understood the right to sue out 


  the preciput.