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Gratuitous Contract

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In civil law

One the object of which is for the benefit of the person with whom it is made, vrithout any profit, received or promised, as a consideration for it; as, for example, a gift.

1 Bouv. Inst, note 709.