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Definition of bona vacantia in English: bona vacantianoun ˌbəʊnə vəˈkantɪə mass nounLaw (in the UK) goods without an apparent owner, such as treasure trove or the estate of a person dying intestate and without heirs, to which the Crown may have right. Example sentencesExamples - I ask the Minister to give some consideration to what happens to goods that are bona vacantia - in other words, do not have a home.
- If that is correct, then those rights will, they accept, have vested in the Crown as bona vacantia, on the dissolution of the Estate Company in 1981.
- Over this limit, of £4000, and the Crown will pursue the former members of the company for the recovery of assets which are bona vacantia.
- The Crown's claim to bona vacantia was represented by the Treasury Solicitor on whose instructions Mr Leech of Counsel addressed me in relation to proposition.
- On the 14th June 1992 the Lease vested in the Crown as bona vacantia under section 654 of the same Act.
Origin Latin, 'ownerless goods'. |