a. Rom. Law. [f. late L. bonitāri-us (cited only in Greek spelling, δεσπότης βονιτάριος, Theophilus I. 5. 4), f. L. bonus good, or bonitas good quality, in reference to the classical in bonis esse, in bonis habere.] = next.
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.
