BONA, goods and chattels. In the Roman law, it signifies every kind of
property, real, personal, and mixed, but chiefly it was applied to real
estates; chattels being chiefly distinguished by the words, effects,
movables, &c. Bona were, however, divided into bona mobilia, and bona
immobilia. It is taken in the civil law in nearly the sense of biens (q. v.)
in the French law.