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bailment

bailment
  (ˈbeɪlmənt)
  [a. OF. baillement, f. bailler to bail, give, deliver.]
  1. Delivery, handing over, or giving for a specific purpose; according to Blackstone, delivery in trust, upon a contract expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee.

1602 W. Fulbecke 1st Pt. Parall. Introd. viij, To treat of borrowing and lending, and of the bailement or deliuery of goods and chattels. 1624 Termes de la Ley 39 Bailement is a diliuerie of things..to another, sometimes to be deliuered backe to the bailor..sometimes to the vse of the Bailee. 1768 Blackstone Comm. II. 452. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 129 Bailment, goods delivered in trust for the fulfilment of an agreement. 1875 Poste Gaius iii. 423 Deposit, loan for use, pawn or pledge, letting and hiring, and mandate, are grouped together in English law under the head of Bailments.

  2. The action of bailing a prisoner or person accused. Also the record of the same.

1554 Act 1 & 2 Mary xiii. §3 (An Act touching Bailment of Persons)..At the Time of the said Bailment or Mainprise. 1581 Lambarde Eiren. iii. ii. (1588) 338 The booke of the Norman Customes calleth Bailement a live prison. 1619 Dalton Countr. Just. cxiv, Bailment..is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison, before that he hath satisfied the law. 1628 King's Letter in Rushw. (1659) I. 560 Our Judges shall proceed to the Deliverance or Bailment of the Prisoner. 1772 Junius Lett. lxviii. 340 The business touching bailment of prisoners. 1826 Act Geo. IV, lxiv. §3 [The magistrate is to] subscribe all examinations, informations, bailments, and recognizances. 1876 Fox Bourne Locke I. i. 5.


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