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Bailor

Bailor \Bail`or"\, n. (Law) One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.

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bailor

n. (context legal English) One who bails property; one who places property in the hands of another (called a bailee) for safekeeping.

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bailor

n. the person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment

Usage examples of "bailor".

Anton Bailey and Anthony Bailor were one and the same before today, huh?

Somewhere along the way, Bailor had connected with art criminals and had perhaps lent his break-in talent to their undertakings.

If Anthony Bailor was the person under guard in a hospital, then it was likely that he had been the gunman who had aimed at me, shot Mercer, and killed the young receptionist in Chelsea on Sunday.

Anthony Bailor is about to have an incurable case of gangrenous balls.

He followed Alex to Lincoln Center, then called Bailor to run her down.

B, Infant, acting through his curator bonis and guardian ad litem, filed an action as owner and bailor of the chattel, a dog of tender years named Spot, alleging negligence on the part of the Village, in a cross claim for indemnity under Fed.

Village in its capacity as bailee, however inadvertently and unhappily arrived at, failed in its duty to bailor under the requisite standard of care and through such alleged negligence is liable for damages so incurred.

Early this morning Bailor had passed her the key, and she had now been without the belt all day.

The issue involved is whether the Village in its capacity as bailee, however inadvertently and unhappily arrived at, failed in its duty to bailor under the requisite standard of care and through such alleged negligence is liable for damages so incurred.

Central to actions in bailment are the concepts of possession, by the bailee, and of ownership by the bailor.

James B, Infant, acting through his curator bonis and guardian ad litem, filed an action as owner and bailor of the chattel, a dog of tender years named Spot, alleging negligence on the part of the Village, in a cross claim for indemnity under Fed.

The right to these remedies extends not only to pledgees, lessees, and those having a lien, who exclude their bailor, but to simple bailees, as they have been called, who have no interest in the chattels, no right of detention as against the owner, and neither give nor receive a reward.

On the other hand, so far as the possessory actions are still allowed to bailors, it is not on the ground that they also have possession, but is probably by a survival, which [175] explained, and which in the modern form of the an anomaly.

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.

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.