Where money was lent to a merchant, to be employed in a benevolent trade, with condition to be repaid, with extraordinary interest, in case such voyage was safely performed, the agreement was sometimes called fenus nauticum, sometimes fura maritima. But as this gave an opening for furious and gaming contracts, 19 Geo. II. c. 37, enacts, that all money lent on bottomry, or at respondentia, on vessels bound to or from the East Indies, shall be expressly lent only upon the ship or merchandise; the lender to have the benefit of salvage, &c. Blackst. Com. II. 459. Mol. de Jur. Mar. 361.

POESIUS (Anulus), a very learned and celebrated physician of the faculty of Paris, born at Metz in 1528. He translated into Latin the whole works of Hippocrates, judiciously correcting the Greek text as he went along; and composed a kind of dictionary to him, intitled Oeconomica Hippocratici. He translated, beside, the Commentaries of Galen upon the second book of Hippocrates; and was the author of some other works. After practising physic a long time with great success and reputation, at Lorraine and other places, he died in 1596.