bona vacantia
noun pluralbo·na va·can·tia | \ ˈbō-nə-vā-ˈkan-shē-ə \
Legal Definition of bona vacantia
: 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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