Bonorum possessio

Z.

In the civil law. Possession of goods; the right of pursuing and retaining the property of a decedent, not strictly due by the civil law, but granted by the praetor from a principle of equity, called' prsetoiian succession; a species of succession resembling the modern right of administration.

Lat.

In the civil law. Possession of goods; called in Greek praetorian succession. The right of pursuing and retaining the property of a person deceased, not strictly due by the civil law, but granted by the praetor from a principle of equity. Inst. 3.10. Cooper's Notes, in loc. Heinec. Elem. Jur. Civ, lib. 3, tit. 10, §§ 714, 716. Halifax Anal. b. 2, c. 11, n. 1. A species of succession resembling the modern right of administration. Id. n. 8.