Depositum

Defined in 6 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Burrill (1850)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A gratuitous bailment terminable at the will of the bailor.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Lat In the civil law. One of the forms of the contract of bailment, being a naked bailment of goods to be kept for the use of the bailor without reward. Foster v. Essex Bank, 17 Mass. 498, 9 Ain. Dec. 168; Coggs v. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 912. See Deposit. One of the four real contracts specified by Justinian, and having the following characteristics:
(1) The depositary or depositee is not liable for negligence, however extreme, but only for fraud, dolus;
(2) the property remains in the depositor, the depositary having only the possession. Precarium and sequestre were two varieties of the depositum.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

In the civil and common law. A bailment of goods, to be kept for the bailor without reward, and to be returned when he shall require it

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

One of the four real contracts specified by Justinian, and having the following characteristics: (1) The depositary or depositee is not liable for negligence, however extreme, but only for fraud, delus; Precarium and sequestre were two varieties of the depositum,

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

A naked bailment without reward, and without any special undertaking.' So called because the naked custody is given to another,* See Deposit, 1; Depot, 1.

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

Lat. [from deponere, to deposit.] In the civU and common law. A naked bailment of goods, to be kept for the bailor without reward, and to be returned when he shall require it. Story on Bailm. § 4, 41. 2 Kent's Com. 558, 559. Jones on Bailm. 36. Inst. 3. 15. 3. Bract, fol. 100 b. See Deposit.