Locatio
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
A placing: letting out for hire. See Locus. Writers who follow the civil law have divided contracts of hiring into: 1. Locatio rei, the hiring of a thing, personalty or realty.
2.
Locatio operis faciendi, hiring for work to be done or care to be bestowed. To which class belong: the undertakings of a mechanic, artisan, tailor, of a warehouseman, wharfinger, agister, postmaster.
3.
Locatio operis mercium vehendarum, a hiring of the labor of carrying goods. To this class belong: a private carrier, with or without pay; a common carrier of goods — express, freight, transfer, packet companies; quasi-carriers — telegraph companies, innkeepers. This class also embraces common carriers of passengers.
See Bailment.