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Bona Vacantia

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

bona vacantia


[Latin, ownerless goods]
: goods that are unclaimed and without an apparent owner [it was trash, in the nature of bona vacantia, which the defendants had abandoned "United States v. Calise, 217 F. Supp. 705 (1962)"]




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