BON

Fr. In old French la.w. A royal order or check on the treasury, invented by Francis I. Bon pour mille Uvres, good for J a you sand livres. Step. Leet. 387. In modern law. The name of a clause (bon pour ---, good for so much) added to a cedule or promise, where it is not in the handwriting of the signer, containing the amount of the sum which he obliges himself K to pay. Poth. ObL part 4, eh, 1, art. 2, Ii L [s. 147]