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Unowned property includes tangible, physical things that are capable of being reduced to being property owned by a person but are not owned by anyone. Bona vacantia (Latin for "ownerless goods") is a legal concept associated with the unowned property, which exists in various jurisdictions, with a consequently varying application, but with origins mostly in English law.
The title cards for the 2008 and later series spell 'Heir Hunters' as 'H£ir Hunt£rs', using the pound sterling sign as a capital E. In each programme of the first two series three unclaimed estates from Bona Vacantia are mentioned in the hope of information being given by a viewer which could help find an heir or heirs. One of these mentioned ...
Re Maldonado [1954] P 223 was a judicial decision of the English Court of Appeal relating to who should inherit certain property in the United Kingdom which belonged to an intestate Spanish national who died without any heirs.
bona officia: good services: A nation's offer to mediate in disputes between two other nations bona patria: goods of a country: A jury or assize of countrymen, or good neighbors bona vacantia: vacant goods: United Kingdom legal term for ownerless property that passes to The Crown: boni pastoris est tondere pecus non deglubere
It is one of two rights to ownerless property that the Crown possess, the others being bona vacantia. Because of ancient nature of the Crown's right, little academic or case law focuses on the application of ultimus haeres in Scots Law. However, the leading authoritative text in this area is A.G MacMillan, The Law of Bona Vacantia in Scotland. (W.
The general rule that governs bona vacantia ("vacant goods")—that is, objects that are lost, forgotten or abandoned—is quod nullius est fit domini regis ("that which belongs to nobody becomes our lord the king's [or queen's]"), [73] [74] and the law of treasure trove is a specialized application of that rule. [75]
The names were included in a 2015 lawsuit against Epstein's former girlfriend by a woman who says she was one of Epstein's sex-trafficking victims. List of names linked to Jeffrey Epstein to be ...
Where no beneficiaries on the above list exist, the person's estate generally escheats (i.e. is legally assigned) to the Crown (via the Bona vacantia division of the Treasury Solicitor) or to the Duchy of Cornwall or Duchy of Lancaster when the deceased was a resident of either. In limited cases a discretionary distribution might be made by one ...