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GRATUITOUS Definition & Legal Meaning

Definition & Citations:

Without valuable or legal consideration. A term applied to deeds ofconveyance and to bailments and other contracts.In old English law. Voluntary; without force, fear, or favor. Bract, fols. 11, 17.As to gratuitous “Bailment,” “Contract” and “Deposit,” see those titles.

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