bailment
(noun) the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee
Source: WordNet® 3.1
bailment (plural bailments)
(obsolete) Bail.
(legal) 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 parties have agreed.
• (in law): contract
• (in law): deposit
• (in law): loan
• (in law): mandate
• (in law): pawn
• (in law): pledge
• Main Belt, bimental, libament, main belt, mintable
Source: Wiktionary
Bail"ment, n.
1. (Law)
Definition: 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. Dalton.
2. (Law)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
7 November 2024
(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”
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