Respondentia

Respondentia Meanings:

• A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. It differs from bottomry, which is a loan on the ship itself
• (law, commercial law) A loan upon goods laden on board a ship. 1831, William Selwyn, Henry Wheaton (notes to the decisions), Thomas I. Wharton (additional notes), An Abridgement of the Law of Nisi Prius, Volume 2, 4th American Edition, page 230, In the case of a loan, the money is at the risk of the borrower, and must be repaid at all events. But where money is lent on bottomry or respondentia, the money is at the risk of the lender during the voyage.
• 1999 , John Bouvier, Daniel A. Gleason, Institutes of American Law, Volume 1, New Edition, page 311, The contract is called respondentia because the money is lent on the personal security of the borrower. It differs from bottomry principally in the following circumstances: bottomry is a loan on the ship, respondentia on the goods; the money is to be repaid to the lender, with maritime interest, in the one case upon the arrival of the ship, and of the goods in the other. In all other respects the contracts are nearly the same, and are governed by the same principles.
• nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of respondēns
• respondentia in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016