Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

commodatum, n.

[Latin commodare "to lend"] Roman & civil law. A bailment involving the gratuitous loan of goods to be used by the bailee and then returned to the bailor. ( This type of bailment is for the sole benefit of the bailee. This is one of three types of contracts for permissive use, the other two being locatio conductio and mutuum. - Also termed accommodatum.