(UK, legal) The principle that there is no unowned property, and that if there is no other owner then property vests in the Crown.
"The company asked also for an express vesting order concerning the land, which had legally gone to the Crown as bona vacantia" [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WvY3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA814&dq=bona+vacantia]
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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