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
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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
The other cases relied on were some of those on general bailment collected above; the same authorities, in short, on which Southcote's Case was founded.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The word bailment is from bail, French, to deliver.
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
Lastly, if the car is driven by the garageman's servant while the bailment continues, the bailee, and not the owner, is responsible for any injury done to a third person by the servant's negligence.
From Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles
The other diversity marked the entrance of the doctrine of consideration into the law of bailment.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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