BON 
Manx, &c. He had a very clofe and intimate friendfliip 
with the'eelerated Petrarch, whofe funeral oration he pro- 
non need in 1369. 
BONAVIS'TA, or Buena Vista, one of the Cape 
de Verd 1 Hands, fo called from the beautiful appearance 
it made, to the firft difeoverers in the year 1450, about 
eighteen leagues in circumference. The foil is for the 
mod part low, but in fume places rocky and mountainous; 
it was formerly fertile, but now become barren ; milk, 
goats, fifli, and turtle, form the principal food of the in¬ 
habitants. They make fotne fair, which they exchange 
with the Englith veflels for old clothes, bifeuit, meal, and 
raw filk, with which they adorn the head-drefs of their 
females. Cotton and indigo would grow well here, but 
through the extreme idlenefs of the inhabitants the culti¬ 
vation is neglected. I,ike the reft of the iflands, it is fub- 
jeft to the Portuguefe, and the feat ot a governor, under 
the governor of St. Jago. Lat. 16. N. Ion. 21. 51. W. 
Greenwich. 
BONAVIS'TA BAY, a bay on the eaft coaft of the 
ifland of Newfoundland. Lat. 49. 20. N. Ion. 53. 25. W. 
Greenwich. 
BON'C AT, a town of France, in the department of the 
Lower Pyrenees: fix leagues north of Bayonne. 
BON'ChA,/! [a bunch, from the old Lat. t/onna or 
buna ] A rifing bank, fur the bounds of fields : and hence 
bourn is 11 fed-in Nurfolk, for dwelling or rifing up in a bunch 
pr tumour, &c. 
BON'CH AMPS, a town of Fran . , in the department 
of the Mayenne, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
irift of Craon : two miles fouth-weft of Craon. 
BONCHRE'TIEN,/ [Fr.] A fpecies of pear, fo call¬ 
ed, probably, from the name of a gardener. 
BONCON VEN'TO, a town of Italy, in the country of 
Sienna, where the emperor Plenry VII. died: twelve 
miles Couth of Sienna. 
. BOND,/- [_bond, Sax. bound; it is written indifferently, 
In many of its fenles, bond, or band.. j Cords, or chains, 
with vVfich any one is bound : 
There left.me and my man, both bound together; 
Till, gnawmg with my teeth my bonds afunder, 
I gain’d my freedom. Skaktfpcare. 
I,igqm,entthat holds any thing together.—Let any one fend 
his contemplatio/i to the extremities of the uniyerfe, and 
fee\what conceivable; hoops, what bond he can imagine, to 
h.old this nulls of, matter in fo clofe a prefture together. 
Locke. —Union; connexion: a workman’s term.—Obferve, 
in working up the walls, that no fide of the houfe be 
brought up three feet above the other, before the next ad¬ 
joining wall be wrought up to it, fo that they may be all 
joined together, and make a good bond. Mortimer. —[In the 
ipiufal. ] Chains; imprifonment; captivity.—Whom I per¬ 
ceived to bay,? nothing laid to his charge worthy of death, 
,or of ponds. Acts, xxiii. 29.—Cement of, union; caufe of 
union ; link of connexion : 
'Wedding is great Juno’s crown ; 
O blelfed bond of board and bed ! Skak/peare. 
—Love cools, brothers divide, and the bond is cracked 
,’twixt fon and father, Shahcfpcare. —Obligation.—Take 
-which you pleafe, it diftolves tlie Ijoflds of government and 
obedience. Locke. 
BOND, f. in law, a.deed whereby the,obligor, or perfon 
.bound, obliges himfelf, his heirs, executors, and admi- 
niftrators, to pay a certain,fum of money to another, the 
obligee, at the day appointed. With relpedt to the nature 
of this fecuritv, if the bond be without a condition, it is 
called a fingle one, /implex obiigatio,;. but there i,s generally 
-a,condition added, that; if 1 he obligor doesdome particular 
aft, the obligation (hail be void, or elje (hall remain in 
full force ; as payment of rent, performance of covenants 
in a deed, or repayment of a principal fum of-money bor¬ 
rowed of the obligee, with intereft ; which principal fum 
is ufually one-half of the penal fum fpecified on the bond. 
. 
BON 157 
In cafe this condition is not performed, the bond become 
forfeited, or abfolute at law, and charges the obligor while 
living, and after his death the obligation defeends on his 
heir, who (on defect of perfonal a(lets) is bound to dif- 
charge it, provided he has real aflets by defeent as a re- 
compence. So that it maybe called, though not adireft, 
yet a collateral, charge upon the lands. The condition 
may be either in the fame deed, or in another ; and fome- 
timesit is included in, fometimes indorfed upon, theobliga- 
tion : but it is commonly at the foot of the obligation. 
Bio. Obi. 67. A memorandum at the back of a bond may 
reftrain the fame by way of exception. Mot. 67. This fe- 
curity is alfo called a fpccialty ; the debt being therein 
particularly fpecified in writing, and the party’s feal ; ac¬ 
knowledging the debt or duty, and confirming the con¬ 
trail ; rendering it a (ecurity ot a higher nature than thole 
entered into without the folemnity of a feal. 
If the condition of a bond be impofiible at the time of 
making it, or be to do a thing contrary to Come rule of law 
that is merely pofitive, or if it be uncertain or infenfible, 
the condition alone is void, and the bond ftiall ftand fingle 
and unconditional ; for it is the folly of the oblig'or to en¬ 
ter into fuch an obligation, from which lie can never be 
relealed. If it be to do a thing that is malum in fe, the 
obligation is void ; for the whole is an unlawful contrail, 
and the obhgee fliall take no ad vantage from fuch a tranf- 
aftion. And if the condition be pollible at the time of 
making ir, and afterwards becomes impofiible by the aft: 
of God, the aft of law, or the aft of the obligee himfelf, 
there the penalty of the obligation is faved ; for no pru¬ 
dence of forefight of the obligor could guard againft fuch 
a contingency. Co. Lit. 206. 
On the forfeiture of a bond, or its becoming fingle, the 
whole penalty was formerly recoverable at law, but here 
the courts of equity interpofed, and would not permit a 
man to take more than in confcience he ought, viz. his 
principal, iniereft, and expences, in cafe the forfeiture 
accrued by non-payment of money borrowed, the damages 
fuftained, upon non-performance of covenants ; and the 
like. And this praftice having gained fume footing in the 
courts of law, lee 2 Kcb. 553. Salk. 596, 7. 6 Mod. 11, 60, 
xoi. ftat. 4, 5, Ann. c. 16, at length enacted, in the fame 
fpirit of equity, that, in cafe of a bond conditioned for 
payment of money, the payment or tender of the principal 
lum due, with intereft and cofts, even though the bond 
be forfeited, and ftiit commenced thereon, ftiall be a full 
fatisfaftion and. difeharge. And this rule. of. compelling, 
the party to do equity who feeks equity, feems to be the 
reafofi why an obligee fhali have intereft after he has en¬ 
tered up judgment ; for though -in. ft rift ne fs it may be ac¬ 
counted his own fault why he did not take out execution, 
and therefore not entitled to intereft ; yet, as by the judg¬ 
ment he’is'intitled to the penalty, it does not feem reafon- 
able .that lie ftiould be deprived of it, but upon paying him . 
the principal and intereft, which incurred as well before as 
after the entering up of thejiiag'ment. Abr. F.q) 92, 288. 
The court of Chancery will not generally carry the'debt 
beyond the penally of a bond. Yet where a 'plaintiff came 
to be,relieved againft fuch penalty, though it was decreed, 
it was on the payment'of the principal money, intereft, and 
cofts ;j and, notwithftanding they exceeded the penalty, this 
was affirmed. 1 Vein. .350. 1’ F.q. Abe 92J 16 Via. tit. Penally , 
And wh,ere the,'condition of a bond is to perform a collai — 
ral aft, damage.s may be recovered beyond the penalty, 
and the court of K. B. will not (lay the proceedings \ n 
payment of the money into court. 2 Term. Rep. 388. SVe 
White v. Sealy, Doug , 49. Sanb. contra; but the authority 
of which is much fhaken by the cafe in 2 Term:. Rep. 38.8, 
where judge B u'ller remarked, that there were feveral 
cafes where the judgment had been carried beyond the pm 
nalty. In Elliot v. Davis, Bunb. 23. intereft on a bond was 
decreed to be paid, though it exceeded the penalty. See 
alfo Collins v. Collins, the cafe of an annuity. Burr.Zza.. 
Holdip v. Otwav, 2 Saund, 106. Dewall v. Price, Shbzo* 
P.C. 15. 
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