Lend — Law Dictionary

United States Code

“Lend” includes a purchase coupled with an agreement by the vendor to repurchase; “borrow” includes a sale coupled with a similar agreement.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To part with a thing of value to another for a time fixed or indefinite, yet to have some time in ending, to be used or enjoyed by that other, the thing itself or the equivalent of it to be given back at the time fixed or when lawfully asked for, with or without compensation for the use as may be agreed upon. Kent v. Quicksilver Min. Co., 78 N. Y. 177.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Hire.

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

For one who has charge of a pistol belonging to another to consent that a third person should take it away for a temporary use, is to "lend" it, within a statute making it a misdemeanor to sell, give, or lend a pistol. Coleman u. State, 32 Ala. 581. Lend, in a will, may be construed as equivalent to give, where the testator evinces a clear intention to part with the entire dominion over the property bequeathed. It has its appropriate meaning, when there is something to show that the testator did not intend the legal estate to pass. Booth V. Terrell, 16 Ga. 20. Lend, in a bequest, is generally equivalent to " give." In special cases, it is limited to the vernacular, but this is where there is something to show that testator did not intend the title to pass. The words: I lend to P. four negroes during her life, then to her heirs, — give an absolute estate. Hinson v. Pickett, 1 Hill {S. C), 37.