Bolting

In English practice. A term formerly used in the English inns of court, but more particularly at Gray's Inn, signifying the private arguing of cases, as distinguished from mooting, which was a more formal and public mode of argument. Cowell; Tomlin; Holthouse. The deserting by one or more persons from the political party to which they belong, or the permanent withdrawal of a portion of the delegates in a political convention. BON (Fr.) In Old French Law. A royal order or check on the treasury, invented by Francis I. Bon pour mille livres, good for a thousand livres.

Steph. Lect. 387.

In Modern Law. The name of a clause {bon pour, good for so much) added to a cedule or promise, where it is not in the handwriting of the signer, containing the amount of the sum which he obliges himself to pay. Poth. Obi. pt.

4, c. 1, art. 2, § 1.

BONA (Lat. bonus). Goods; personal property; chattels, real or personal; real property. Bona et catalla (goods and chattels) includes all kinds of property which a man may possess. In the Roman law it signified every kind of property, real, personal, and mixed;. but chiiefly. it was applied to real estate, chattels being distinguished by the words "effects," "movables," etc. Bona were, however, divided into bona mobilia and bona immobilia. It is taken in the civil law in nearly the sense of biens in the French law.