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Webster 1913 Edition
Bailment
Bail′ment
,Noun.
1.
(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. Dalton.
2.
(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.
Blackstone.
☞ In a general sense it is sometimes used as comprehending all duties in respect to property.
Story.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bailment
BA'ILMENT
,Noun.
A delivery of goods, in trust, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.