BAILMENTS

Noun

bailments

plural of bailment

Anagrams

• libaments

Source: Wiktionary


BAILMENT

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



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