Crossword clues for bailment
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bailment \Bail"ment\, n.
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(Law) The action of bailing a person accused.
Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law.
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(Law) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.
--Blackstone.Note: In a general sense it is sometimes used as comprehending all duties in respect to property.
--Story.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) bail. 2 (context legal English) The handing over of control over, or possession of, personal property by one person, the bailor, to another, the bailee, for a specific purpose upon which the party have agreed.
WordNet
n. the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee
Wikipedia
Bailment describes a legal relationship in common law where physical possession of personal property, or a chattel, is transferred from one person (the "bailor") to another person (the "bailee") who subsequently has possession of the property. It arises when a person gives property to someone else for safekeeping, and is a cause of action independent of contract or tort.
Usage examples of "bailment".
Central to actions in bailment are the concepts of possession, by the bailee, and of ownership by the bailor.
The same rule is stated as to bailments in general, the same year, by Sergeant Maynard arguendo in Williams v.
As before, the breach of duty complained of might be such damage to property as had always been sued for in that form of action, or it might be a loss by theft for which detinue would formerly have been brought, and which fell on the bailee only by reason of the bailment.
It would seem from other books that this was spoken of bailments generally, and was not limited to those which are terminable at the pleasure of the bailor.
Bernard, and of Sir William Jones in his book on Bailments, to show that Southcote v.
Indeed, it is sometimes laid down generally, in reputable text-books, that a gratuitous bailment does not change the possession, but leaves it in the bailor.
Now, all men of reading know that these pretended laws of homicide, concubinage, theft, retaliation, compulsory marriage, usury, bailment, and others which might have been cited, from the Pseudograph, were never the laws of England, not even in Alfred's time.