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Webster 1913 Edition

(bālˊē′)

Noun.

[OF.

baillé

, p. p. of

bailler

. See

to deliver.]

(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.

Blackstone.

☞ In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith.

Wharton.

Noun.

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.