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Meaning of Bona
(Lat. bonus). Goods ; personal property; chattels, real or personal; real property. Bona et catalla (goods and chattels) includes all kinds of property which a man may possess. In the Roman law it signified every kind of property, real, personal, and mixed ;. but chiiefly. it was applied to real estate, chattels being distinguished by the words “effects,” “movables,” etc. Bona were, however, divided into bona mobilia and bona immobilia. It is taken in the civil law in nearly the sense of biens in the French law.
What does Bona mean in American Law?
The definition of Bona in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
As an adjective, the evaluation “good.” As a noun, “goods,” i.e., chattels, wares, merchandise. In Roman law the word referred to all kinds of property, but perhaps principally to real estate; in the older common law it referred to moveables, i.e., chattels.
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Concept of “Bona”
Traditional meaning of bona in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) Goods; property. Bona et catalla: goods and chattels. Bona felonum: goods of felons. Bona forisfacta: goods forfeited. Bona fugitivorum: goods of fugitives. Bona mobilia, immobilia: goods movable, immovable. Bona notabilia: goods worthy of notice, i. e.; of the value of £5. If a decedent left goods worth £5 in more than one diocese, administration had to be taken out before the metropolitan of the province, by way of special prerogative, to avoid having two or more administrators appointed by the different ordinaries of the diocese; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 509. Bona peritura: perishable goods. Bona utlagatorum: goods of outlaws. Bona vacantia: goods without an owner; goods found, or goods belonging to a person dying without successor or heir; see 1st Book (“The Rights of Persons”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 299. Bona waviata: goods waived; goods stolen and thrown away by the thief in his flight.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Bona”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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