Bona

Bona is law-Latin for goods, and occurs in the Scottish legal phrase in bonis—i.e. forming part of the legal estate—and in the Roman phrase bonorum possessio. In English law the word has some technical applications: Bona Vacantia—such as wrecks, treasure-trove, waifs, and estrays, contrary to the general rule, which gives such things to the finder—vest in the crown; Bona Waviata consist of goods waived or thrown away by a thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended; they belong to the owner if he prosecutes to conviction, otherwise to the crown. In cases of outlawry, the property forfeited to the crown is sometimes called Bona Confiscata.