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Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Lat In the law of ball-ments. A loan for consumption; a loan of chattels, upon an agreement that the borrower may consume them, returning to the lender an equivalent In kind and quantity.

Story, Ballm. § 228; Payne v. Gardiner, 29 N. Y. 167; Downes v. Phœnlx Bank, 6 Hill (N. Y.) 299; Rahilly v. Wllson, 20 Fed. Can. 181.