Contractus bonæ fidei

In Roman law. Co.ntracts of good faith. Those contracts which, when brought into litigation, were not determined by the rules of the strict law alone, but allowed the judge to examine into the bona fides of the transaction, and to hear equitable considerations agninst their enforcement. In this they were opposed to contracts stricti juris, against which equitable defenses could not be entertained.

Defined under Contractus in Black's Law Dictionary.