PROLETARIUS

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

  PROLETARIUS, civil law. One who has no property to be taxed; and paid a tax 
  only on account of his children, proles; a person of mean or common 
  extraction. The word has become Frenchified, proletaire signifying one of 
  the common people.