(in the UK) goods without an apparent owner, such as treasure trove or the estate of a person dying intestate and without heirs, to which the Crown may have right.
〔律〕（英国）无主财物（如发掘出来的物主不明的财物或无继承人的财产，属国王所有）
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I ask the Minister to give some consideration to what happens to goods that are bona vacantia - in other words, do not have a home.
If that is correct, then those rights will, they accept, have vested in the Crown as bona vacantia, on the dissolution of the Estate Company in 1981.
Over this limit, of £4000, and the Crown will pursue the former members of the company for the recovery of assets which are bona vacantia.
The Crown's claim to bona vacantia was represented by the Treasury Solicitor on whose instructions Mr Leech of Counsel addressed me in relation to proposition.
On the 14th June 1992 the Lease vested in the Crown as bona vacantia under section 654 of the same Act.