Gratuitous - Law Dictionary Search Results
promise
that is made with no intention of carrying it out and esp. with intent to deceive or defraud gratuitous promise : a promise that is made without consideration and is usually unenforceable called also naked promise compare
Gift
without pecuniary consideration. A voluntary conveyance of land, or transfer of goods, from one person to another, made gratuitously, and to upon any consideration of blood or money. A similar definition has been given in WEBSTER'S THIRD
contract
of a commodity on a specified future date at a set price : future called also future contract gratuitous contract in the civil law of Louisiana : a contract in which one party promises to do something
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Any passenger
the expression 'any passenger' is an expression of very wide amplitude and means all passengers, whether they are gratuitous or whether they are carried on payment. The fact that the expression 'any passenger' has been used in
commodatum
commodatum [Latin, loan, from neuter of commodatus, past participle of commodare to lend, bestow] : a gratuitous loan of movable property to be used and returned by the borrower : loan for use at loan
Free acceptance
'when a defendant has passed up an opportunity to reject a benefit knowing that it was not offered gratuitously he has only himself to blame for the resulting situation, Birks an Introduction to the Law of Restitution,
Voluntary
Done by design or intention 2. Unconstrained by interference; not impelled by outside *** 3. Without valuable consideration; gratuitous, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1569. Means (i) some promise of advantage or some threat, (ii) of
Vaccination
cowpox as a preventive of smallpox. First made compulsory in 1853 by 16 & 17 Vict. c. 100, gratuitous vaccination having been previously provided for in the various enactments, dating from 1840, on the subject prior to
Ragged Schools
Schools Rating (Exemption from Rating) Act, 1869, in which a 'ragged school' means: Any school used for the gratuitous education of children and young persons of the poorest classes, and for the holding of classes and meetings
Precarium
him the thing to use as long as the owner shall please. This was dis-tinguished from an ordinary gratuitous loan, and in the Roman Law gave rise to different obligations on the part of the borrower, See
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