s law term, meaning a bond for money, joined
with a conveyance of land, and held by a creditor as security for his
debt.

For goods "in bond" see BONDED WAREHOUSE. (E. Ma.)

FOOTNOTE:

[1] This word, meaning "that which binds," is a phonetic variant of
"band," and is derived from the Teutonic root seen in _bindan_, to
bind; it must be distinguished from the obsolete "bond," meaning
originally a householder. In the laws of Canute this word is used as
equal to the Old English _ceorl_ (see CHURL), and thus, as the
churl's position became less free after the Norman Conquest, the
"bond" approximated to the "villein," and still later to the "serf."
The word is in Old English _bonda_, and appears in "husband"
(q.v.), and is derived from the root of the verb _bua_, to dwell,
to have a house, the Latin _colere_, and thus in origin is cognate
with German _Bauer_ and English "boor." The transition in meaning to
the idea of serfdom, and hence to slavery, is due to an early
confusion with "bond," from "bind." The same wrong connexion appears
in the transition of meaning in "bondage," properly "tenure in
villeinage," but now used as synonymous with "slavery." A trace of
the early meaning still survives in "bondager" (q.v.).

BONDAGER, a word meaning generally a servant, but specially used in the
south of Scotland and Northumberland as the term for a female outworker
whom a married farm-labourer, living in a cottage attached to the farm,
undertakes as a condition of his tenancy to supply for field-labour,
sometimes also to board and lodge. The origin of the system was a dearth
of field-labour.

BONDE, GUSTAF, COUNT (1620-1667), Swedish statesman. He is remarkable
for being the persistent advocate of a pacific policy at a time when war
on the slightest provocation was the watchword of every Swedish
politician. Even the popular Polish adventure of Charles X. was
strenuously opposed by Bonde, though when once it was decided upon he
materially assisted the king to find the means for carrying it on. He
was also in favour of strict economy coupled with the recovery of the
royal domains which had fallen into the hands of the nobles, though his
natural partiality for his fellow-peers came out clearly enough when in
1655 he was appointed a member of Charles X.'s land-recovery commission.
In 1659 he succeeded Herman Fleming as lord high treasurer, and was