bailment
Americannoun
noun
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contract law a contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose
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criminal law the act of granting bail
Etymology
Origin of bailment
1545–55; earlier bailement < Anglo-French; Old French baillement. See bail 1, -ment
Example Sentences
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Agistment, or the taking in of cattle or live stock to feed at a rate of so much per head, is a contract of bailment.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
If the defendant was a servant not having control over the goods, he might not fall within the law of bailment, and factors are treated on the footing of servants in the early law.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bailment, in law, is a delivery of goods, in trust, upon agreement that the trust shall be executed, and the goods restored by the bailee, when the purpose of the bailment shall have been, answered.
From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Andrew W. Young
Mutuum, mū′tū-um, n. a bailment consisting of a loan of goods for consumption, as corn, coal, &c., to be returned in goods of the same amount.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
The law relating to such transactions is called the law of bailment.
From Rollo's Museum by Jacob Abbott
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