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bailee


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Bailee  \Bail`ee"\,  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. 
 
  Note:  In  penal  statutes  the  word  includes  those  who  receive 
  goods  for  another  in  good  faith.  --Wharton. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  bailee 
  n  :  the  agent  to  whom  property  involved  in  a  bailment  is 
  delivered 




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