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bonitary ownership.See OWNERSHIP. [Blacks Law 8th]

bonitary (bahn-<<schwa>>-tair-ee), adj.BONITARIAN(1).[Blacks Law 8th]

bonitarian (bahn-<<schwa>>-tair-ee-in), adj. Roman law. 1. Equitable or beneficial. — Also termed bonitary. Cf. QUIRITARIAN. 2.Hist. Pertaining to or designating a property interest governed by praetorian edict rather than civil law. See edictum praetoris under EDICTUM.[Blacks Law 8th]

bonis non amovendis.See DE BONIS NON AMOVENDIS. [Blacks Law 8th]

bonis cedere (boh-nis see-d<<schwa>>-ree). [Latin “to cede one’s goods”] Civil law. A transfer or surrender of property, usu. from a debtor to a creditor.[Blacks Law 8th]

boni homines (boh-nIhom-<<schwa>>-neez). [Law Latin “good men”] Hist. Free tenants who judged each other in their lord’s court. “[W]e may find traces of juries in the laws of all those nations which adopted the feodal system, as in Germany, France, and Italy; who had all of them a tribunal composed of twelve good men and…

bonification (bahn-<<schwa>>-fi-kay-sh<<schwa>>n). A tax remission, usu. on goods intended for export. • Bonification enables a commodity to be sold in a foreign market as if it had not been taxed.[Blacks Law 8th]

  bones gents (bohn jents). [Law French “good men”] Hist. Qualified or competent persons; esp., men qualified to serve on a jury.[Blacks Law 8th]

bond trust.See TRUST.[Blacks Law 8th]

bond table.A schedule used in determining a bond’s current value by its coupon rate, its time to maturity, and its effective yield if held to maturity.[Blacks Law 8th]