Locatio, onis, f. g. Aliud verbale. Cicer.A letting to hire: a setring out: or a taking of any worke in great vpon a bargaine.Inducere locationem.Cic.Ludficare locationem. Vide LVDVS. Locatium. rij. The hyre of an house or lodging.Locatarius.He that letteth an house or lande.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lŏcātĭo, ōnis, f. [id.], a placing, locating; a disposition, arrangement. I. In gen.: recta locatio, prioribus sequentia annectens, Quint. 7, 1, 1 dub. (Zumpt, collocatio): locatio verborum, id. 9, 4, 32.—II. In partic., a letting out, leasing: quae (porticus) consulum locatione reficiebatur, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2: fundi, Col. 1, 7, 3: locationes praediorum rusticorum,
the farming out of the Macedonian crown-lands
, Liv. 45, 18.— B.Transf., a contract of letting or hiring, a lease, Cic. Att. 1, 17, 9: consensu fiunt obligationes in locationibus, Gai. Inst. 3, 135; 142 sqq.