Preoarium
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
Precarious
Held by mere entreaty; held at the will of another. The word is used in the civil law as the name of a species of contract, in which the owner of a thing gives it to another person, at the request of the latter, to be used by him as long as the owner shall please.