{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{expand Spanish|date=December 2022}} A '''commodate''' ({{langx|la|commodatum}}), also known as '''loan for use''',<ref>{{cite news|title='Burdensome administration' means young farmers are missing out on EU subsidies |first=Natasha |last=Foote |publisher=EURACTIV | date=18 November 2019 |url=https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/burdensome-administration-means-young-farmers-are-missing-out-on-eu-subsidies/}}</ref> in civil law and Scots Law is a gratuitous loan; a loan, or free concession of anything moveable or immoveable, for a certain timeframe, on condition of restoring again the same individual after a certain time.
It is a kind of loan, or contract, with one difference: the commodate is ''gratis'', and does not transfer the property; the thing must be returned in essence, and without deterioration, so that things which consume by use, or time, cannot be objects of a commodate, but of a loan, because although they may be returned in kind, they cannot in identity.
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{Cyclopaedia 1728|title=Commodate |url=https://archive.org/details/Cyclopediachambers-Volume1/page/n427/mode/2up |volume=1 |page=275}} *''Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary'' (1913)
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