PROPRES

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

  PROPRES, French law. The term propres or biens propres, is used to denote 
  that property which has come to an individual from his relations, either in 
  a direct line, ascending or descending, or from a collateral line, whether 
  the same have come by operation of law or by devise. Propres is used. in 
  opposition to acquets. Poth. Des. Propres; 2 Burge, Confl. of Laws, 61; 2 L. 
  R. S.