perquisites
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Perquisites
Fringe benefits or other incidental profits or benefits accompanying an office or position.
The abbreviation perks is used in reference to extraordinary benefits afforded to business executives, such as country club memberships or the free use of automobiles.
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perquisites
see BENEFIT IN KIND, EMOLUMENT.Collins Dictionary of Law © W.J. Stewart, 2006
PERQUISITES. In its most extensive sense, perquisites signifies anything gotten by industry, or purchased with money, different from that which descends from a father or ancestor. Bract. lib. 2, c. 30, n. 8; et lib. 4, c. 22. In a more limited sense it means something gained by a place or office beyond the regular salary or fee.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.