BON 
eight species accordiug to Ganelin. The 
most common and therefore the most worthy 
-attention are the B. medius, B. major, and 
B aureus. The medius may be seen in the 
early periods of spring in the gardens and 
the fields, and is easily distinguished by its 
downy bee-like body, and its straight sharp* 
pointed proboscis. Its colour is pale clies- 
nut-brown, with whitish yellow hair; and 
the wings are blackish along the whole 
length of the upper half, the remainder be- 
ing transparent and marked with numerous 
black spots. The major resembles the 
medius, but the wings are said to be without 
spots, being only marked by the black up- 
per division. The Linnsean characters of 
these two species are not, according to 
Shaw, sufficiently distinct : B. aureus is 
hairy ; thorax brown ; abdomen golden, 
from which it derives its name. It is found 
in Barbary. The head is covered with 
golden coloured hairs ; the sides of the tho- 
rax are lined with golden-coloured hairs ; 
abdomen with tufts of hairs ; wings brownish 
at the base, the tip whitish, with six black 
dots; legs testaceous. 
This genus is separated into three divi- 
sions, viz. A. distinguished by two hairy 
feelers ; antennae united at the base : B. 
sucker with three incumbent bristles; no 
feelers ; antennae approximate : C. antennae 
distant, the last joint subulate, and two 
feelers. 
BOMBYX. See Phauena. 
BONA/hte, or bona fide, among lawyers, 
is as much as to say, such a thing was done 
really, without either fraud or deceit. 
A man is said to possess any thing bona 
■fide, who is ignorant of that thing’s being the 
property of another ; on the contrary, he is 
said to possess a tiling mala fide, who is 
conscious of its being the property of an- 
other. 
Bona notabilia, are such goods as a per- 
son dying has in another diocese besides 
that wherein he dies ; amounting to the 
value of 51. at least ; in which case the will 
of the deceased must be proved, or ad- 
ministration granted in the court of the 
archbishop of the province, unless by com- 
position, or custom, any dioceses are au- 
thorised to do it, when rated at a greater 
sum. 
Bona patria, an assise of countrymen, or 
good neighbours, where twelve or more are 
chosen out of the country to pass upon an 
assise, being sworn judicially in tire presence 
of the party. 
BOND, an obligatory instrument, or 
deed, in writing, whereby Qne binds hira- 
BON 
self to another to pay a certain sum of bio> 
ney, or perform some certain acts ; as that 
the obligor shall make a release, execute 
a sufficient conveyance of his estate, save 
the obligee harmless, perform the covenant* 
of a deed, &c. 
A bond contains an obligation with a 
penalty, and a condition generally written 
under it, which expressly mentions the sum 
that is to be paid, or other thing to be per- 
formed, and to whom, with the limited time 
thereof, for which the obligation is peremp- 
torily binding. 
The condition of a bond must be to do 
something lawful ; for if it be to perform an 
act malum in se, as to kill a person, &c. it 
is void : likewise bonds not to use trades, 
&c. are unlawful and void : so also are 
bonds made by compulsion, by infants, and 
feme coverts, &c. but if a drunken man 
voluntarily gives his bond, it shall bind him ; 
and a bond, though it be without any con- 
sideration, is binding. Where a bond lias no 
date, or a false one is inserted therein, if it be 
sealed and delivered, it is a good bond ; and 
a person shall not -he charged by any bond, 
though signed and sealed, without delivery or 
words, or other thing, amounting to it. Not- 
withstanding a bond be made to pay money 
on the 30th of February, and there be no 
such day, the bond is good, and the money 
shall be paid presently. It is the same if 
no time is limited ; in that case it must be 
immediately paid, or in convenient time. 
If a bond be of twenty years standing, 
and no demand is proved to be made there- 
on, or good cause shown for so long for- 
bearance, upon pleading the payment at the 
day, it shall be intended paid. 
Bond, post obit, is one that becomes 
payable after the death of some person, 
whose name is specified in it. The life of 
a person being uncertain, the risk attached 
to such bonds frees them from the shackles 
of the common law of usury. 
Bond, in carpentry, a term among work- 
men ; as, to make good bond, means that 
they should fasten the two or more pieces 
together, either by tenanting, mortising, or 
dovetailing, &c. 
BONE. By bones are meant those 
hard, solid, well-known substances, to which 
the firmness, shape, and strength of animal 
bodies are owing ; which, in the larger ani- 
mals, form, as it were, the ground-work 
upon which all the rest is built. In man, 
in quadrupeds, and many other animals, the 
bones are situated below the other parts, 
and scarcely any of them are exposed to 
view ; but shell-fish and snails have a hard 
