Blacks Law Dict. 1st ed

144

BONA FIDES

BOND

BONA FIDES. Good faith; Integrity of dealing; honesty; sincerity; the opposite of mala fides and of doliu mains, Bona fides exigit ut quod convenit flat. Good faith demands that what is agreed upon shall be done. Dig. 19, 20, 21; Id. 19, 1, 50; Id. 50, 8, 2, 13. Bona fides non patitur ut bis idem ex igatur. Good faith does not allow us to de mand twice the payment of the same thing. Dig. 50, 17, 57; Broom, Max. 338, note; 4 Johns. Ch. 143. BONA FORISFACTA. Goods for feited. BONA FUGITIVORUM. In English law. Goods of fugitives; the propei goods of him who flies for felony. 5 Coke, 1096. BONA GESTURA. behavior. Good abearance or BONA GRATIA. In the Roman law. By mutual consent; voluntarily. A term applied to a species of divorce where the par ties separated by mutual consent; or where the parties renounced their marital engage ments without assigning any cause, or upon mere pretexts. Tayl. Civil Law, 361, 362; Calvin. BONAMEMOEIA. Goodmemory. Generally used in the phrase sance mentis et bonce memories, of sound mind and good memory, as descriptive of the mental capac ity of a testator. BONA MOBILIA. In the civil law. Movables. Those things which move them selves or can be transported from one place to another, and not permanently attached to a farm, heritage, or building. BONA NOTABILIA. In English pro bate law. Notable goods; property worthy of notice, or of sufficient value to be accounted for, that is, amounting to £5. Where a decedent leaves goods of sufficient amount (bona notabilia) in different dio ceses, administration is granted by the metro politan, to prevent the confusion arising from the appointment of many different ad ministrators. 2 Bl. Comm. 509; Kolle, Abr. 908. BONA FATBIA. In the Scotch law. An assize or jury of good neighbors. Bell. BONA PERITURA. Goods of a per ishable nature; such goods as an executor or trustee must use diligence in disposing of and converting them into money.

BONA UTLAGATORTJM. Goods of outlaws; goods belonging to persons out lawed. BONA VAOANTIA. Vacant,un claimed, or stray goods. Those things in which nobody claims a property, and which belong to the crown, by virtue of its prerog ative. 1 Bl. Comm. 298. BONA WAVIATA. In English law. Waived goods; goods stolen and waived, that is, thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended, or to facilitate his escape; and which go to the sovereign. 5 Coke, 1096; 1 Bl. Comm. 296. BONiE FIDEI. In the civil law. Of good faith; in good faith. This is a more frequent form than bona fide. BON.ffiI FIDEI CONTRACTS. In civil and Scotch law. Those contracts in which equity may interpose to correct inequalities, and to adjust all matters according to the plain intention of the parties. 1 Kames, Eq. 200. BONiE FIDEI EMPTOR. A purchas er in good faith. One who either was igno rant that the thing he bought belonged to an other or supposed that the seller had a right to sell it. Dig. 50, 16, 109. See Id. 6, 2, 7, 11. BOIOE FIDEI POSSESSOR. A pos sessor in good faith. One who believes that no other person has a better right to the pos session than himself. Mackeld. Rom. Law, §243. Bonse fldei possessor in id tantum quod sese pervenerit tenetur. A possessor in good faith is only liable for that which b« himself has obtained. 2 Inst. 285. BONANZA. In mining parlance, the widening out of a vein of silver, suddenly, and extraordinarily; hence any sudden, un expected prosperity in mining. Webster. BOND. A contract by specialty to pay a certain sum of money; being a deed or instru ment under seal, by which the maker or ob ligor promises, and thereto binds himself* his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a designated sum of money to another; usually with a clause to the effect that upon performance of a certain condition (as to pay another and smaller sum) the obligation shall be void. The word "bond" shall embrace every written undertaking for the payment of money or acknowl edgment of being bound for money, conditioned

Archive CD Books USA