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Definition of Mutuum
1. Noun. a loan in Roman and civil law of fungible things to be restored in similar property of the same quantity and quality ¹
2. Noun. a contract in which movables are so loaned ¹
3. Noun. a loan for consumption ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mutuum
1. a bailment consisting of a loan of goods [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mutuum
Literary usage of Mutuum
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"In a mutuum the legal remedy or proper action at law to employ was the condictio
certi, called also condictio ex mutuo, or actio mutui (Code, 7, 35, 5). ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Contracts and Rights and Liabilities Ex Contractu by Charles Greenstreet Addison (1849)
"It is of the essence of a mutuum that a chattel of the same character, description,
and quality as the' one lent should be given back ; if, by the agreement ..."
3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"See In GENERE; IR KIND; mutuum. LOAN FOR EXCHANGE. A contract by wliicli one
delivers personal property to another, and the latter agrees to return to the ..."
4. Commentaries on the Roman-Dutch Law by Simon van Leeuwen (1886)
"Of other things which can be measured or weighed, and which pass by measure and
weight, a mutuum may also be constituted ; as for instance, oil, wine, ..."
5. The Principles of Economical Philosophy by Henry Dunning Macleod (1872)
"Thus it is said in Roman Law'—" An obligation may be founded on a thing, as by
the delivery of a Loan, or mutuum. But the delivery of a Loan, or mutuum, ..."
6. A Compendium of Roman Law Founded on the Institutes of Justinian: Together by Gordon Campbell (1878)
"Real contracts were of four kinds :— A. mutuum, OR LOAN FOR CONSUMPTION.
The subject matter of this contract consisted of something which might be weighed, ..."
7. The Institutes of Cape Law: Being a Compendium of the Common Law, Decided (1907)
"CHAPTER X. mutuum, OR LOAN FOE CONSUMPTION. mutuum, or loan for consumption, is
a contract whereby some fungible thing is delivered by one person to another ..."
8. Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations by Seymour Dwight Thompson (1895)
"Doctrine that the lender loses mutuum, his right of action by waiting 2716. ...
Loan of Shares Declared to be a mutuum.— In dealings among brokers, ..."
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