in botany. See Trigonella.

FOENUS nauticum. Where money was lent to a merchant, to be employed in a beneficial trade with condition to be repaid, with extraordinary interest, in case such voyage was safely performed, the agreement was sometimes called *fenus nauticum*, sometimes *ufura maritima*. But as this gave an opening for usurious 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. Blackf., Com. II. 459. Mol. de Jur. Mar. 361.