bailment

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Black’s Law Dictionary 1st Edition, page 115

BAILMENT. A delivery of goods or personal property, by one person to another, in trust for the execution of a special object upon or in relation to such goods, beneficial either to the bailor or bailee or both, and upon a contract, express or implied, to perform the trust and carry out such object, and thereupon either to redeliver the goods to the bailor or otherwise dispose of the same in conformity with the purpose of the trust. See Code Ga. 1882, § 2058.

A delivery of goods in trust upon a contract, ex· pressed or implied, that the trust shall be faith· fully executed on the part of the bailee. 2 Bl. Comm.455.
Bailment, from the French bailer, to deliver, is a delivery of goods for some purpose, upon a con· tract, express or implied, that. after tho purpose has been fulfilled, they shall be redelivered to tho bailor, or otherwise dealt with. according to his directions, or (as the case may be) kept till be re­claims them. 2 Steph. Comm. SO.
A delivery of goods in trust upon a contract, ex­ pressed or implied, that the trust shall be duly executed, and tho goods restored by the bailee as

800n as the purposes of the bailment shall be answered. 2 Ken� Comm. 559.
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