{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:2130","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Definition","number":"2130","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2130/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK VI - SPECIAL CONTRACTS","title":"TITLE II - CONTRACTS FOR THE CUSTODY, USE OR POSSESSION OF THINGS","chapter":"Chapter 4. - Deposit","section":"Section 1. - General Provisions","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"A contract of deposit is a contract whereby one person, the depositary, undertakes to receive for a certain time a movable from another, the depositor, and to keep it on the latter’s behalf and to return it to him.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/2130/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":590,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/590/?article=2130&paragraph=lead#article-2130-lead"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}