bonitarian, a. Rom. Law.
(bɒnɪˈtɛərɪən)
[f. late L. bonitāri-us (cited only in Greek spelling, δεσπότης βονιτάριος, Theophilus 1. 5. 4), f. L. bonus good, or bonitas good quality, in reference to the classical in bonis esse, in bonis habere.]
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| 1861 Maine Anc. Law viii. (1876) 295 The Roman distribution of rights over property into Quiritarian or legal, and (to use a word of late origin) Bonitarian, or equitable. 1876 Digby Real Prop. vi. 281 Beneficial, or, as it was barbarously called by the commentators, bonitarian ownership. 1880 Muirhead Gaius 458. |