Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A person to whom property is bailed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In law, the person to whom goods are committed in bailment. He has a temporary possession of them and a qualified property in them for such purpose only.
Wiktionary
- n. law One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Law) The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered
Examples
“Because of this psychology, the bailee is unwilling to make hard decisions and thus asking for too much money.”
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“In other words, after it had been sold, if still kept there the seller would be merely the keeper, or bailee, which is the legal term, and he would be obliged to use only ordinary care in keeping it.”
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“If a bailee should be a scoundrel and sell the thing left with him for safe-keeping and receive the money, the true owner could, nevertheless, claim the thing wherever he could find it.”
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“As the bailee recovered the whole value of the goods, the old reason, that he was answerable over, has in some cases become a new rule, (seemingly based on a misunderstanding,) that the bailee is a trustee for the bailor as to the excess over his own damage.”
“Since he did reclaim it, Rollo did perfectly right to give it up, fish and all; and as he did so, it was a bailment for the benefit of the bailee, that is, Henry.”
“The amount is too much -- The "bailee" always thinks he is doing everything right, but outside forces have created this terrible situation.”
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“a different point; just as the liability of a bailee, which is now treated as arising from his undertaking, was originally raised by the law out of the position in which he stood toward third persons.”
“Mortgagee who had at first been a mere "bailee" or depositary, and in the Emphyteuta, or tenant of land which was subject to a fixed perpetual rent.”
“Yes, the bailee is the person the thing is bailed to.”
“This is my favorite way of cooking, and eating, and I am just now seeing how strongly my mom influenced this … bailee says:”
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