Bonorum Possessio
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
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.