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A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

This word is often used in the sense of returning the thing borrowed im specie, ag to borrow a book or any other thing tobe returned again. Butitis evident that where money is borrowed, the identical money loaned is not to be returned, because, if this were so, the borrower would derive no benefit from the loan. In the broad senseof the term, it means a contract for the use of monsy.

13 Neb. 88, 12 N. W. Rep. 812; 39 Leg, int. 98; 78 N. Y. 177.