The five people to die in Teesside this year, and have their estates declared "bona
vacantia", include:
The six people to die in Birmingham this year and have their estates declared "bona
vacantia" are: ?
"Upon dissolution, all properties and rights vested in, or held in trust for, the company are deemed to be bona
vacantia and accordingly will belong to the crown."
You can apply direct through a Government department known as Bona
Vacantia here.
The Government's Bona
Vacantia Division holds a full list of unclaimed estates which is updated daily with the names of people who have died leaving no will or no known next-of-kin.
The Court held that the items were "bona
vacantia"--a property
The estate appeared on the Bona
Vacantia list of unclaimed estates in the UK and its value is currently unknown.
Unclaimed estates - where someone dies with no will or known next of kin - pass to the government's Bona
Vacantia division.
If a company is STRUCK off by Companies House its assets become what is Known as 'bona
vacantia'.
Andrew Bell, Bona
Vacantia (stating, in reference to property for which the identity of the owner is unknown, "the most that can be said is that the owner is unlikely to come forward, so that it is not unreasonable to assimilate the case to one of ownerless property"), in INTERESTS IN GOODS, supra note 13, at 207, 212.
(4.) Shieha, S, S Teradaa, and J P
Vacantia. "Tissue engineering auricular reconstruction: in vitro and in vivo studies." Biomaterials, 2004; 25(1): 1545-1557.