bailee
IPA: bˈeɪɫi
noun
- (law) One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other.
- A person who is granted bail.
- A female given name
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Examples of "bailee" in Sentences
- Liability to the third bailee was not transferable.
- "Yes, the bailee is the person the thing is bailed to.
- The old common law held a bailee strictly liable for the bailment.
- The bailee who was in possession of the horse rode it for 15 miles.
- Because of this psychology, the bailee is unwilling to make hard decisions and thus asking for too much money.
- This is my favorite way of cooking, and eating, and I am just now seeing how strongly my mom influenced this … bailee says:
- The amount is too much -- The "bailee" always thinks he is doing everything right, but outside forces have created this terrible situation.
- Mortgagee who had at first been a mere "bailee" or depositary, and in the Emphyteuta, or tenant of land which was subject to a fixed perpetual rent.
- Since he did reclaim it, Rollo did perfectly right to give it up, fish and all; and as he did so, it was a bailment for the benefit of the bailee, that is, Henry.
- If a bailee should be a scoundrel and sell the thing left with him for safe-keeping and receive the money, the true owner could, nevertheless, claim the thing wherever he could find it.
- In other words, after it had been sold, if still kept there the seller would be merely the keeper, or bailee, which is the legal term, and he would be obliged to use only ordinary care in keeping it.
- a different point; just as the liability of a bailee, which is now treated as arising from his undertaking, was originally raised by the law out of the position in which he stood toward third persons.
- As the bailee recovered the whole value of the goods, the old reason, that he was answerable over, has in some cases become a new rule, (seemingly based on a misunderstanding,) that the bailee is a trustee for the bailor as to the excess over his own damage.