Bailee

Bailee
Bailee Bail`ee" (b[=a]l`[=e]"), n. [OF. baill['e], p. p. of bailler. See {Bail} 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. [1913 Webster]

Note: In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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