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  • noun Plural form of bailee.

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Examples

  • Although there is no question that Spain is in better shape than the bailees, it is far from being a rock-solid bet to avoid the need for help.

    Will Spain be a Domino or a Dam? Irwin Stelzer 2011

  • The new managing director will speak with less authority, and might prefer austerity-heavy to austerity-light, making it even more likely that recessions and defaults are in the bailees' future.

    Waking Up to Greece's Default Position Irwin Stelzer 2011

  • Funnily enough they have to keep going to the custody suite for bailees, CPS appointments, property.

    Teen Imperial « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • The same requirement should apply to the top executives of Citigroup and AIG, and other of the big bailees.

    Paul Abrams: Top Execs of Bailout Companies Should Have "Skin" in the Game 2009

  • July 31, 2008 at 2:11 pm teh bailees in mai irish coffee…

    i haz a bed - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Instead, common-law judges and scholars construed and enforced agreements of various kinds according to several well-understood jural relationships, such as those between principals and agents, masters and servants, landlords and tenants,parents and children, husbands and wives, or bailors and bailees.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Dan Ernst 2008

  • Jailers in charge of prisoners were governed by the same law as bailees in charge of cattle.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • The writs in the Register against bailees to keep or carry goods, all have the general allegation of negligence, and so do the older precedents of declarations, so far as I have observed, whether stating the custom of the realm or not.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • It had begun to totter when the reporter cautioned bailees to accept in such terms as to get rid of it.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

  • The notion was evidently gaining ground that the liability of common carriers for loss of [196] goods, whatever the cause of the loss might be, arose from a special principle peculiar to them, and not applicable to bailees in general.

    The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888

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