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Mutuary

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A person who borrows personal chattels to be consumed by him, and returned to the lender in kind; the person who receives the benefit arising from the contract of mutuum.

Story, Bailm. § 47.

MUTUS (Lat.) In civil and old English law. Dumb; mute; a dumb person.

Dig. 50. 17. 124; Inst. 3. 20. 7; Fleta, lib. 2, c.