GRATI

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  GRATIS. Without reward or consideration.
       2. When a bailee undertakes to perform some act or work gratis, he is 
  answerable for his gross negligence, if any loss should be sustained in 
  consequence of it; but a distinction exists between non-feasance and 
  misfeasance; between a total omission to do an act which one gratuitously 
  promises to do, and a culpable negligence in the execution of it; in the 


  latter case he is responsible, while in the former he would not, in general, 
  be bound to perform his contract. 4 Johns. R. 84; 5 T. 143; 2 Ld. Raym. 913.