Bona

Lat. fplur. of b(mum^ not used; Fr. Wctw.] Goods; personal chattels; moveable property. A term still used in modem law, as in the phrase nulla bona, (q. v.) and others. Like biens, it is said to be a more comprehensive term than goods, as it comprehends chattels real, as well as personal.

Co. Litt. 118 b.

Bona et catalla; goods and chattels. This expression includes all personal things that belong to a man.

Pollock, C. B., 16 Mees. dc W. 68.

In the civil law, bona includes all sorts of property, moveable and immoveable.

Story*s Canfl. Laws, § 375. Dig. 50. 16. 49. 208.

The Roman jurists derived bona from beare, beatum facere, to make happy, to benefit.

Id. 50. 16. 49.

Bona confiscata. Lat. In the civil law.

Confiscated goods

Goods forfeited for offences were so called, because they belonged to the fiscus, or imperial treasury.

1 Bl. Com. 299.

See Fiscus. Bona felonum.

Lat.

In English law

Goods of felons; the goods of one convicted of felony.

5 Co. 110.

Bona fugitivorum.

Lat.

In English law

Goods of fugitives; the proper goods of him who flies for felony.

5 Cb. 109 b.

Bona mobilia. Lat. In the civil law. Moveable goods or personal chattels, as distinguished from bona immobilia. Bona notabilia. L. Lat. In English ecclesiastical law. Notable goods; goods worthy of notice, or of sufficient value to be taken into account.* Goods of a party deceased, amounting in value, at least to five Sounds.

If all the goods of the deceased e

at the time of his death, within the same diocese or jurisdiction, a probate before the ordinary, or an administration granted by him are the only pi*oper ones. But if the deceased had bona notabilia, or chattels to the value of a hundred shillings in two distinct dioceses or jurisdictions, then the will must be proved or administration taken out before the metropolitan of the province, by way of special prerogative.

2 Bl. Com. 509.

Shep. Touch. 499, 500, and note.

2 Steph. Com. 23Y, 238. 1 Chitt. Gen. Pr. 523.

Bona PERiTURA. Lat. Perishable goods. Bona vacantia. Lat. [vacantia, from vacare, to be empty, to want.] In the civil and common law. Goods wanting an owner; goods without an owner, or in which no one claimfi a property.

Inst. 2, 6. 4.

These, by the general rule of the common law belong to the first finder, with the exception of royal fish, shipwrecks, treasure trove, waifs and estrays, which in England are the property of the sovereign.

1 £l Com, 298. 2 Stepk, Com. 563, 654.

Bona waviata. L. Lat.

In English law

Waived goods; goods stolen, and vfoived, that is, thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended, or to facilitate his escape; and which go to the sovereign.

5 Co. 109 b. 1 Bl. Com. 296.

See Waviare.

See Waviare.