bona vacantia
C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Ownerless goods or land that pass to the Crown, typically on an intestacy without kin or from a dissolved company's assets.
When the company was struck off, its freehold vested in the Crown as bona vacantia.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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