peonia

from Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
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. 
    

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