Body politic

See Corporation. 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 chiefly 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. See Nulla Bona.

A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designaied as a “hody corporate and politic.” The term is particularly appropriate to a public corporation invested with powers and duties of government, It is often used, ina rather loose way, to designate the state or nation or sovereign power, or the government of a county or municipality, without distinctly connoting any express and individual corporate character,

A term applied to a corporation, which is usually designated as a body corporate and politic. A body to take in succession framed by policy. Co. Litt. 250 a. Particularly applied in the old books to a corporation sole. Litt. sect. 413. Termes de la ley, voc. Corporation, {Bodies politic.)