Precarious
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
Revocable rights are called precarious. A right to use a thing which the owner has given to another, to be withdrawn whenever the owner pleases, is called a precarious right. Precarious loan is a bailment which the owner may recall at will. Precarious trade is that which, by sufferance of two nations at war, a neutral may carry on between them. The circumstances of an executor are "precarious" only when his conduct and character present such evidence of improviopinion of prudent and discreet men, endanfers its security.
Shields v. Shields, 60 (a?*. 56.