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Bailee   Listen
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Bailee  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. Note: In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bailee" Quotes from Famous Books



... this occasion, his brilliant legal mind taking in all the phases of the situation at once. "I don't see that there is anything more here than a technical charge. If it ever came to anything like that, which I don't think it will, the charge would be embezzlement or perhaps larceny as bailee. In this instance, you were the bailee. And the only way out of that would be to swear that you had received the check with Stener's knowledge and consent. Then it would only be a technical charge of irresponsibility ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser



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