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entrustment

  • a word derived from entrust.
    entrust
    verb (used with object)
    to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust.

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Other counts mentioned in the suit include negligence and negligence per see, intentional spoliation of evidence, negligent entrustment of chattel, negligent hiring, training and supervision and more.

From Fox News ● Feb. 7, 2022

Under the legal doctrine of negligent entrustment, the owners of potentially dangerous goods have a responsibility to supply those goods only to someone competent to safely use them.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021

The Sandy Hook complaint is an attempt to apply the doctrine of negligent entrustment much more broadly.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2014

"We have identified the critical aspect of the 'customer' definition to be the entrustment of cash or securities to the broker-dealer for the purpose of trading securities," Raggi wrote.

From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2013

As part of the adoption process, the Roths and other adoptive parents traveled to Hosanna for an "entrustment ceremony," a ritual in which a birth relative symbolically transfers the parental role to the adoptive parents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2012