Bailee (Custodian) A person with whom some article is left, usually pursuant to a contract, who is responsible for the safe return of the article to the owner when the contract is fulfilled.
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(n) Baillie is the person who is holding a property as a security for due fulfillment of a contract or legal obligations for which such security is given or rendered. A bailee can act up on the property when the obligation is not fulfilled ...
Bailee:
The person who receives property through a contract of bailment, from the bailor, and who may be committed to certain duties of care towards the property while it remains in his or her possession.
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bailee
n. a person, also called a custodian, with whom some article is left, usually pursuant to a contract (called a "contract of bailment"), who is responsible for the safe return of the article to the owner when the contract is fulfilled.
BAILEE, contracts. One to whom goods are bailed.
2. His duties are to act in good faith he is bound to use extraordinary diligence in those contracts or bailments, where he alone receives the benefit, as in loans; ...
BAILEE : The legal term for a person to whom property is entrusted. It has no relation to criminal bail.
BAILIFF : A court attendant whose duties are to keep order in the courtroom and to have custody of the jury. ...
"(T)he bailee does not represent the bailor. He merely exercises, with the leave of the bailor (under contract or otherwise), certain powers of the bailor in respect of his property.
Bailee One who accepts tender of a bailment. Bailiff An officer of the court, usually a sheriff's deputy, whose duty is to protect everyone within the court and to carry out every order of the judge.
See also: bailee bailor
The People's Law Dictionary by Gerald and Kathleen Hill Publisher Fine Communications ...
Being a bailee without reward, the depositary is bound to slight diligence only, and he is not therefore answerable except for gross neglect.
A transfer of possession of a chattel from a bailor to a bailee without transfer of legal or equitable title. A bailor can demand the return of the property at any time from the bailee.
Definition
: a bailment imposed by law when the bailee comes into possession of the property by accident or mistake (as by finding it or receiving a mistaken delivery)
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