Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

BODY OP LAWS

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BONA FIDE PURCHASER

BODY OF LAWS. An organized and sys tematic collection of rules ot jurisprudence; as, particularly, the body of the civil law, or corpus juris eivilis. BODY POLITIC. A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designated as a "body corporate and politic." The term is particularly appropriate to a public corporation invested with powers and duties of government. It is often used, in a rather loose way, to designate the state or na tion or sovereign power, or the government of a county or municipality, without distinct ly connoting any express and individual cor porate character. BOILARY. Water arising from a salt well belonging to a person who is not the owner of the soiL BOIS, or BOYS. Wood; timber; brush. BOLHAGITJM, or BOLDAGIUM. A little house or cottage. Blount. BOLT. The desertion by one or more persons from the political party to which he or they belong; the permanent withdrawal before adjournment of a portion of the dele gates to a political convention. Bap. & L. BOLTING. In English practice. A term formerly used in the English inns of court, but more particularly at Gray's Inn, signify ing the private arguing of cases, as distin guished from mooting, which was a more formal and public mode of argument. Cow ell; Tomlins; flolthouse. BOMBAY REGULATIONS. Regula tions passed for the presidency of Bombay, and the territories subordinate thereto. They were passed by the governors in council of Bombay until the year 1834, when the power of local legislation ceased, and the acts relat ing thereto were thenceforth passed by the governor general of India in council. Moz ley & Whitley. BON. Fr. In old French law. A royal order or check on the treasury, invented by Francis I. Bon pour mille Hares, good for a thousand livres. Step. Leek 387. In modern law. The name of a clause (bon pour , good for so much) added to a cedule or promise, where it is not in the handwriting of the signer, containing the amount of the sum which he obliges himself to pay. Poth. Obi. part 4, ch. 1, art. 2, § 1. BON A. Goods; property; possessions. In the Roman law, this term was used to des

ignate all species of property, real, personal, and mixed, but was more strictly applied to real estate. In modern civil law, it includes both personal property (technically so called) and chattels real, thus corresponding to the French biens. In the common law, its use was confined to the description of mov able goods. BONA CONFISCATA. Goods confis cated or forfeited to the imperial flsc or treas ury. 1 Bl. Comm. 299. BONA ET CATALLA, Goods and chat tels. Movable property. This expression includes all personal things that belong to a man. 16 Mees. & W. 68. BONA FELONUM. In English law. Goods of felons; the goods of one convicted of felony. 5 Coke, 110. BONA FIDE. In or with good faith; honestly, openly, and sincerely; without de ceit or fraud. Truly; actually; without simulation or pretense. Innocently; in the attitude of trust and confidence; without notice of fraud, etc. The phrase " bonafide" is often used ambiguous ly; thus, the expression u a bona fide holder for value" may either mean a holder for real value, as opposed to a holder for pretended value, or it may mean a holder for real value without notice of any fraud, etc. Byles, Bills, 121. Bona fide possessor faoit fructus oon sumptos suos. By good faith a possessor makes the fruits consumed his own. Tray. Lat. Max. 57. BONA FIDE PURCHASER. A pur chaser for a valuable consideration paid or parted with in the belief that the vendor had a right to sell, and without any suspicious circumstances to put him on inquiry. 12 Barb. 605. One who acts without covin, fraud, or col lusion; one who, in the commission of or connivance at no fraud, pays full price for the property, and in good faith, honestly, and in fair dealing buys and goes into posses sion. 42 Ga. 250. A bona fide purchaser is one who buys property of another without notice that some third person has a right to, or interest in, such property, and pays a full and fair price for the same, at the time of such purchase, or before he has notice of the claim or inter est of such other in the property. 65 Barb. 23)

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