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noun

Bailment n.

(Law) 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."

(Law) 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. Note: In a general sense it is sometimes used as comprehending all duties in respect to property.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bailment" Quotes from Famous Books

... this same caution. Our biographer himself (Mr. William W. Story) has certainly done himself great injustice as a writer in his work on "Contracts," when, in the pages before us, he presents us with so much delicacy of fancy and rhetorical finish. Blackstone in his "Commentaries," Jones in his "Bailment" treatise, Stephens in his essay upon "Pleading," time-honored Fearne in his "Contingent Remainders," have shown how grateful and how suitable it is for the legal readers to find brilliancy of rhetoric adorning ...

— The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II • Various