PROPIOS

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

  PROPIOS, or PROPRIOS, Span. law. Certain portions of ground laid off and 
  reserved when a town was founded in Spanish America, as the unalienable 
  property of the town, for the purpose of erecting public buildings, markets, 
  &c., or to be used in any other way, under the direction of the 
  municipality, for the advancement of the revenues, or the prosperity of the 
  place. 12 Peters' R. 442, note.