Bon
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
Fr.
Inold Frenchlaw
A royal osder or check on the treasury, invented by Francis I. Bon pour mille iferes, good for a theusand livres.
Step. Lect. 387.
In modern law. The name of a clause (on 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 obiiges himself to pay.
Poth. Obl. part 4, ch. 1, arf.
2, $1. ignate all species of property, real, personal, and mixed, but was more strictly applied to real estate. In modern eivil law, it includes both personal property (technically so called) and chuttels reai, thus corresponding to the French étevs. In the common law, ita lise was confined to the description of moyable goods.