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Bonae Fidei Emptor

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A bona fide purchaser {q. V.) BONAE FIDEI POSSESSOR IN ID TANturn quod ad se pervenerit tenetur. A bona fide possessor is bound for that only which has come to him. Coke, 2d Inst. 285; Grotius, de Jure Belli, lib. 2, c. 10, § 3 et seq.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A purchaser in good faith.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A purchaser in good faith. One who either was ignorant that the thing he bought belonged toanother or supposed that the seller had a right tosellit. Dig. 50, 16, 109. See Id. 6, 2, 7, ie