Law Dictionary Definitions

BOND bond,n.1. An obligation; a promise. “[A]n obligation, or in English a ‘bond,’ is a document written and sealed containing a confession of a debt; in later times ‘contract’ is the genus, ‘obligation’ the species.” 2 Frederick Pollock & Frederic W. Maitland, The History of English Law 207 (2d ed. 1899). A written promise to…

  bona waviata.See BONA.[Blacks Law 8th]

bona vacantia.See BONA.[Blacks Law 8th]

bona utlagatorum.See bona fugitivorum under BONA.[Blacks Law 8th]

bona peritura.See BONA.[Blacks Law 8th]

bona passiva (boh-n<<schwa>> pa-sI-v<<schwa>>).Roman law. Liabilities. Cf. BONA ACTIVA.[Blacks Law 8th]

bona paraphernalia.See BONA. [Blacks Law 8th]

bona notabilia.See BONA.[Blacks Law 8th]

bona mobilia.See BONA. [Blacks Law 8th]

bona memoria (boh-n<<schwa>> m<<schwa>>-mor-ee-<<schwa>>). [Latin] Good memory. • Bona memoria, as used in the phrase sanae mentis et bonae memoria (of sound mind and good memory), refers to a testator’s mental capacity. See MIND AND MEMORY.[Blacks Law 8th]