Gratuitous Contract
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
In Civil Law. One the object of which is the benefit of the person with whom it is made, without any profit, received or promised, as a consideration for it: as, for example, a gift. It is sometimes called a contract of beneficence. It is the result of a classification of contracts, in relation to the motive for making them, under which they are termed either gratuitous or onerous. A contract is onerous when a party is required by its terms or nature to do or give something as a consideration, Howe, Studies in the Civil Law 107.