Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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bona paraphernalia

Clothes, jewelry, and ornaments not included in a married woman's dowry.

bona paraphernalia.

See BONA

drug paraphernalia

Any thing used, intended for use, or designed for use with a controlled substance. ( Possession of drug paraphernalia is a crime.

parapherna

[Greek "things brought on the side"] Roman law. Property of a wife not forming part of her dowry. See DOS

paraphernal property

See EXTRADOTAL PROP. ERTY.

paraphernalia

Hist. Property that a wife was allowed to keep, in addition to her dowry, on the death of her husband. "[I]n one particular instance the wife may acquire a property in some of her husband's goods: which shall remain to her after his death and not go to the executors. These are called her paraphernalia, which is a term borrowed from the civil law ... signifying something over and above her dower." 2 William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England 435-36 (1765).