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bona fide
bona fide [Latin, in good faith] 1 a : characterized by good faith and lack of fraud or deceit [a bona fide offer] b : valid under or in compliance with the law [retirement incentives made part of a bona fide employee benefit plan] 2 : made with or characterized by sincerity [a bona fide belief] 3 : being real or genuine [bona fide residents] ...
Bona vacantia
Bona vacantia, things found without any apparent owner which belong to the first occupant or finder, unless they be whale or sturgeon, wreck, treasure trove, waifs or estrays (see those titles), which belong to the Crown by virtue of its prerogative. So personal property held on trusts which have failed, or held in trust for a corporation which has been dissolved, belongs to the Crown as bona vacantia; see Re Higginson, (1898) 1 QB 325, and cases there cited. By the (English) Companies Act, 1929, s. 296, the property of a dissolved company including property held on trust for it shall, subject to the provisions of the Act, become bona vacantia. Before the Act was passed freehold and leasehold property reverted to the grantor. Hastings Corporation v. Letton, (1908) 1 KB 378, s. 296 is not retrospective, Re Katherine Ltd., (1932) 1 Ch 70, and (1933) 2 Ch 29. As to the rights of the Crown, the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duke of Cornwall to bona vacantia, see (English) Administration of Est...
bona fide purchaser
bona fide purchaser : a purchaser who purchases in good faith without notice of any defect in title and for a valuable consideration called also bona fide purchaser for value NOTE: There are particular requirements for a bona fide purchaser of a security set out in Uniform Commercial Code section 8-302. Under this section a bona fide purchaser is one who buys a security in good faith and without notice of any adverse claims and who takes delivery of a certificated security either as a bearer security or as a registered security issued to him or her or endorsed to him or her or by a blank endorsement or to whom the transfer of an uncertificated security is registered on the books of the issuer, or as otherwise provided in section 8-313. ...
Bona fide
Bona fide, is characterized by good faith and lack of fraud or deceit; valid under or in compliance with the law; made with or characterized by sincerity; being real or genuine, Webster's Dictionary of Law, Indian Edn. (2005), p. 54.Bona fide, (in good faith), implying the absence of all fraud or unfair dealing or acting, whether it consists in simulation or dissimulation.As to 'bona fide traveller,' see TRAVELLER....
The building is bona fide required by the landlord
The building is bona fide required by the landlord, the phrase 'the building is bona fide required by the landlord' for the immediate purpose of demolition and reconstruction occurring in s. 14(1)(b) of the Act refers to bona fide requirement of the landlord and the requirement in terms is not that the building should need immediate demolition and reconstruction, Metalware and Co. v. Bansilal Sarma and Co., AIR 1979 SC 1559 (1562): (1979) 3 SCC 398: (1979) 3 SCR 1107....
bona fides
bona fides [Latin] : good faith [the fact that the plaintiff conducted an investigation demonstrated its bona fides "Jeannette Glass Co. v. Indemnity Ins. Co. of North America, 88 A.2d 407 (1952) (dissent)"] ...
bona vacantia
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)"] ...
Bona fide
In or with good faith without fraud or deceit real or really actual or actually genuine or genuinely as you must proceed bona fide a bona fide purchaser or transaction...
Bona fide clerical mistake
Bona fide clerical mistake, bona fide clerical error would normally be one where an officer has indicated a particular date of birth in his application form or any other document at the time of his employment but, by mistake or oversight a different date has been recorded, Union of India v. C. Rama Swamy, AIR 1997 SC 2055 (2061): (1997) 4 SCC 647. [All India Services(Death-Cum-Retirement Benefits) Rules (1958), R. 16A]...
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