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Precarium

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. Precarious; held as by mere entreaty; depending on the will and pleasure of another. Precarium nomen: a precarious titla In the civil law. A gratuitous loan, upon request and revocable at pleasure, in which the lender grants the use of the subject in express woi"ds.