bona+fide

  • 91bona fide operation — Real and substantial operation, not something of pretense or sham. 13 Am J2d Car § 95 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 92bona fide possessor — A person who is in possession of property and is ignorant of all the facts and circumstances relating to his adversary s title. Henderson v Pickett s Heirs, 20 Ky (4 T13 Mon) 54, 60; actual rather than potential or simulated service, and… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 93bona fide residence — A residence which amounts to a domicil, that is, a place where a person lives or has his home, to which, when absent, he intends to return and from which he has no present purpose to depart permanently. 17 Am J2d Div & S § 247 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 94bona fide holder — noun : a holder of negotiable paper who before it reached maturity acquired title in the ordinary course of business and without actual or constructive notice of any defect in title or of lack of consideration …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 95bona fide purchaser — noun : a purchaser who buys in good faith without notice of any defect and for a valuable consideration …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 96fide — ⇒ bona fide …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 97bona fides — bona fide, bona fides 1. Bona fide is an adjectival and (now rarely) adverbial phrase meaning ‘in good faith’ and hence ‘genuine(ly)’ (a bona fide tourist); bona fides is a noun phrase meaning ‘good faith’ and hence ‘honest intention’. Bona fides …

    Modern English usage

  • 98Bona fides — (lat.), die Handlungsweise, welche aus der Überzeugung mit rechtlichen Leuten zu verkehren u. selbst innerhalb der Grenzen seines Rechts zu handeln, hervorgeht. Daher Bonae fidei possessor, ein Besitzer, der sich in dem Glauben befindet, daß der… …

    Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • 99bona fides — (izg. bȍna fȉdes) ž DEFINICIJA pravn. dobra vjera, načelo po kojem se obveze (utanačene ugovorom, arbitražom ili sudskom presudom) moraju ispunjavati pošteno i nedvosmisleno (bona fide), bez nastojanja da se izigra puni smisao i svrha obveze… …

    Hrvatski jezični portal

  • 100bona fides — by 1838, erroneous English pluralization of BONA FIDE (Cf. bona fide), as though it were a noun meaning guarantee of good faith …

    Etymology dictionary