Pret a usage

Loan for use. A contract by which one of the parties delivers an article to the other, to be used by the latter, the borrower agreeing to return the specific article after having used it.

Duverger.

A contract identical with the commodatum (q. v.) of the civil law. -Pret de consommation. Loan for consumption. A contract by which one party delivers to the other a certain quantity of things, such as are consumed in the use, on the undertaking of the borrower to return to him an equal quantity of the same species and quality.

Duverger.

A contract identical with the mutuum (q. v.) of the civil law.