Locatio

Lat.

In the civll law. Letting for hire. The term is also used by text-writers upon the law of bailment at' common law. In Scotch law it is translated "location." Bell.

— Locatio-conductio. In the civil law. A compound word used to denote the contract of bailment for hire, expressing the action of both parties, viz., a letting by the one and a hiring by the other. 2 Kent, Comm. 586, note; Story, Bailm. § 368; Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 913.

— Locatio custodiæ. A letting to keep; a bailment or deposit of goods for hire. Story, Bailm. § 442,

— Locatio operis. In the civil law. The contract of hiring work, i. e., labor and services. It is a contract by which one of the parties gives a certain work to be performed by the other, who binds himself to do it for the price agreed between them, which he who gives the work to be done promises to pay to the other for doing it. Poth. Louage, no. 392; Zell v. Dunkls, 156 Pa. 353, 27 Atl. 38.

— Locatio operis faciendi. A letting out of work to be done; a bailment of a thing for the purpose of having some work and labor on care and pains bestowed on it for a pecuniary recompense 2 Kent, Co.m. 586, 588; Story, Bailm. §§ 370, 421, 422.

— Locatio operis mercium vehendarum. A letting of work to be done in the carrying of goods; a contract of bailment by which goods are delivered to a person to carry for hire. 2 Kent, Comm. 597; Story, Bailm. §§ 370, 457.

— Locatio rei. A letting of a thing to hire. 2 Kent, Comm. 586. The bailment or letting of a thing to be used by the bailee for a compensation to be paid by him. Story, Bailm. § 370.