PRECARIUM

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

  PRECARIUM. The name of a contract among civilians, by which the owner of a 
  thing at the request of another person, gives him a thing to use as long as 
  the owner shall please. Poth. h.t. n. 87. See Yelv. 172; Cro. Jac. 236; 9 
  Cowen, 687; Roll. R. 128; Bac. Ab. Bailment, c; Ersk. Prin. B. 3, t. 1, n. 
  9; Wolff, Ins. Nat. Sec. 333. 
       2. A tenancy at will is a right of this kind.