Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Perquisite

Perquisite , noun

[Latin perquisitum, from perquisitus, past participle of perquirere to ask for diligently; per + quaerere to seek. See Per-, and Quest.]

1.
Something gained from a place or employment over and above the ordinary salary or fixed wages for services rendered; -- examples are, a fee allowed by law to an officer for a specific service; the use of a company automobile or other company property.
The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldiers. — Prescott
The best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gaves a man of doing good. — Addison
2.
(Law) Things gotten by a man's own industry, or purchased with his own money, as opposed to things which come to him by descent. — Mozley & W