Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In law, a kind of bailment in which property is loaned to another to be returned without compensation for its use.
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Examples
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As often as a Contract is celebrated, for the sake of the receiver alone, so often fraud, deceit, fault, even the lightest is answered for as in [commodatum].
John Adams diary, June 1753 - April 1754, September 1758 - January 1759 1966
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The Latin language very happily expresses the fundamental difference between the _commodatum_ and the _mutuum_, which our poverty is reduced to confound under the vague and common appellation of a loan.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 Rossiter Johnson 1885
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Commodate (commodatum) a loan of the use of a thing;
The Science of Right 1790
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In the contract of commodate-loan (commodatum) I give some one the gratuitous use of something that is mine.
The Science of Right 1790
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The Latin language very happily expresses the fundamental difference between the _commodatum_ and the _mutuum_, which our poverty is reduced to confound under the vague and common appellation of a loan.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The Latin language very happily expresses the fundamental difference between the commodatum and the mutuum, which our poverty is reduced to confound under the vague and common appellation of a loan.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The Latin language very happily expresses the fundamental difference between the commodatum and the mutuum, which our poverty is reduced to confound under the vague and common appellation of a loan.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Roberti VVhitintoni Lichfeldienfis Laureati & dc inftitu - tione gramaticulorii opufculum, libello fuo de cocinnitate gramatices ac - commodatum &c in quattuor partes digeflum.
Typographical antiquities: an historical account of printing in England ... 1790
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