Crossword-Solution: BAILMENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bailment | n. | The action of bailing a person accused. |
| Bailment | n. | 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. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| contractual delivery of goods in trust to a person for a specific purpose | 1 answer |
| ACT of bailing a person | 2 answers |
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Sentences with BAILMENT (5)
They are so many attempts to state the duty of the bailee specifically, according to the nature of the bailment and of the object bailed.
Indeed, it is sometimes laid down generally, in reputable text-books, that a gratuitous bailment does not change the possession, but leaves it in the bailor; /4/ that a gratuitous bailee is quasi a servant of the bailor, and the possession of one is the possession of the other; and that it is for this reason that, although the bailee may sue on [174] his possession, the bailor has the same actions.
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.
But any obligation of a bailee might be conceived of as part of a contract of bailment, after assumpsit had become appropriated to contract, the doctrine of consideration had been developed, (both of which had happened in Lord Coke's time,) it seemed unnecessary to distinguish nicely between the two sets of duties just mentioned, provided a consideration and special promise could be alleged.
Finally, on the question of negligence, that it was not sufficient to have the usual number of men to guard the ship, but that it was neglect not to have enough to guard the goods, unless in case of the common enemies, citing the case of the Marshal, which it will be remembered was merely the principle of Southcote's Case and the common law of bailment in another form.