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A kind of Bison or BUFFALO, q. v. Bonaventu'ra, (St.,) an Italian friar of the order of St. Francis, B. in Tuscany, 1221. He was sent by his superiors to Paris, where he, as well as Thomas A quinas, of the Dominican order, became involved in contentions with the university, which denied the academical honors to individuals of the mendicant orders. It was not till 1257 that he received his doctor's degree. He had already been elected general of his order, in which capacity he enforced a strict discipline, giving himself the first example of implicit adherence to the monastic rule. He retired to the convent of Mount Alvernia in Tuscany, where he wrote Vita Santi Francisci, and also an ascetic work, Itinerarium ment is in Deum, for which last he received the appellation of the "Seraphic Doctor." He D. July 15, 1274, from sheer ascetic exhaustion. Dante, who wrote shortly afterwards, places him among the saints of his "Paradiso." In 1482, he was formally canonized by Sixtus IV., and in 1587 was ranked by Sixtus V. as the 6th of the great doctors of the church. Bonaven'ture, in prov, of Quebec, an E. co., containing an area of 3,290 sq. m. Cap . New Car lisle. Pop . in 1895, abt. 20,000. Bona vista, (bo'na-vees'ta.) One of the CAPE DE VERD Islands, q. v. Bona vista, a cape, telegraph station, and bay of Newfoundland, on the S.E. coast. Lat. of bay 48° 42′ N, and Lon. 53° 8' W. - Also a district of Newfoundland. Bon-bon, ( bong'bong ,) n. [Fr., goody-goody.] A sugarplum; a confection of fruit, chocolate, ., in crystallized sugar. Bonbrook, in Virginia , a post-office of Franklin co. Bonchamp, CHARLES MELCHIOR ARTUS, MARQUIS DE, ( bong - shan ,) B. at Jouverdeil, France, in 1759, was one of the bravest leaders of the Vendean party in the civil war consequent upon the French revolution. He received a fatal shot in the breast in the sanguinary encounter at Chollet, Oct. 17, 1793, and when his followers vowed to avenge his death on 5,000 republican prisoners, the dying hero exclaimed: "Spare your prisoners, I command it." This last command was obeyed. Bon-chretien, ( bong -kretyen,) n. [Fr., good Christian.] A species of large French pear. Bond, n . [A. S. bond , from bind an , to bind.] Anything that binds, fastens, or confines, or which holds things together; a band; a tie; a cord; a chain; a ligament. - ( pl . ) Chains; imprisonment; captivity; durance. "Whom I perceived to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death, or of bonds."- Acts xxiii. 29. of the Senate, and (failing direct i ue of the emperor) - Cementing influence; cause of union; link of connec heir to the throne. By his second wife he had three children, Prince Napoleon Jerome, Prince Mathilde, and one who died young. Jerome D. in Paris, 1860. tion; binding influence; as, the bonds of affection. "Love cools, brothers divide, and the bond is cracked twins son and father." - Shaks. -An obligation imposing a moral duty as by a pledge, promise, and so forth; as, my word is my bond. (Masonry.) The connection established among the atones or bricks in a wall, by disposing them so as to overlap each other. - See BRICK-LAYING. (Law.) A deed whereby the obligor or party binding himself, obliges himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, to pay a certain sum of money, called the penalty, to another (the obligee), at a day appointed. There is a condition added, that if the obligor does some particular act, the obligation shall be void, or else remain in full force. In case this condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited or absolute at law, and charges the obligor while living, and after his death the obligation descends on the heir, who (in default of personal a ets in the hands of the executor or administrator) is bound to discharge it, provided he has real a ets by descent. The condition is usually (although not nece arily) included in the same deed, and at the foot of the obligation. The bond without a condition is termed single (or simplex obligatio ), and becomes single by forfeiture, on non-performance of the condition. At law, the whole penalty mentioned in the bond was recoverable on such non-performance. But by the interposition of equity, the obligee was discharged from paying more than the sum to which the obligor was reasonably entitled; viz., his principal, interest, and expenses, if the bond was for payment of a debt; or the damages accruing to him, if it was for the performance of a stipulated act. But by 4 and 5 Anne c. 16, it was enacted that in case of a bond conditioned for payment of money, the payment of the sum due, with interest and costs, even though the bond be forfeited and suit commenced thereon, shall be a full satisfaction and discharge; and on this footing the law now stands.- A bond on which neither principal nor interest has been demanded for twenty years will be presumed to have been satisfied; but length of time is not, strictly, a legal bar, but only a ground for the jury to presume satisfaction. In a bond where several are bound severally, the obligee may, at his election, sue all the obligors together, or each of them apart, and have several judgments and executions: but he shall have satisfaction but once; for if it be by one only, that is sufficient to discharge the debt. Bond, a, (for BOUND:) Bound; in a state of servitude or captivity. "Whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free." 1 Cor. xii. 13. -o. a. To give bond for; to secure payment of by giving a bond; as, to bond goods at the Custom House.