Commodatum

Lat. [from com/wodare, to lend.] A thing loaned, {res commodata.) Bract, fol.

99 b.

The contract by, or upon which a thing is loaned; a loan for use without pay. A bailment of a thing, or of goods, to be used by the bailee for his own benefit, {ad commodum,) temporarily, or for a certain time, without reward, {nulla mercede accepta vel constituta,) and then to be identically returned to the lender.* List. 3.

15. 2. Dig. 13. 6.

Bract fol.

99 b. 2 E'enfs Com. 573, 574. Story on Bailment, § 6.

Called in Scotch law, commodate; a term which Mr. Justice Story regrets has not been introduced into the English law of bailment. Ersk. Inst b.

3, tit. 1, § 20. 1 Bel Vs Com. [197] 225. Story on Bailm. § 221.