Chapter — Marc, Institutiones Morales
CHAPTER II: On Gratuitous Contracts
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St. Alphonsus, III, 720; ed. G., II, p. 185; Lugo, disp. 23; Lessius, l. 2, c. 18; Salmanticenses, c. 4, n. 65 ff.; Sporer, tr. 6, c. 2, s. 3; modern authors cited above. With respect to testaments, see Vermeersch, o. c., n. 222 ff.
¶2.
Among gratuitous contracts are especially numbered: 1. promise; - 2. donation; - 3. testament, by occasion of which we shall speak of the whole hereditary succession; - 4. mandate and management of affairs; - 5. deposit and sequestration; - 6. loan for use and precarium; - 7. loan for consumption. The first three contracts are unilateral, the others bilateral.