Lend
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
For one who has charge of a pistol belonging to another to consent that a third person should take it away for a temporary use, is to "lend" it, within a statute making it a misdemeanor to sell, give, or lend a pistol. Coleman u.
State, 32 Ala. 581.
Lend, in a will, may be construed as equivalent to give, where the testator evinces a clear intention to part with the entire dominion over the property bequeathed. It has its appropriate meaning, when there is something to show that the testator did not intend the legal estate to pass.
Booth V. Terrell, 16 Ga. 20.
Lend, in a bequest, is generally equivalent to " give." In special cases, it is limited to the vernacular, but this is where there is something to show that testator did not intend the title to pass. The words: I lend to P. four negroes during her life, then to her heirs, — give an absolute estate.
Hinson v. Pickett, 1 Hill {S. C), 37.