bailee
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Noun (1)
- the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is deliveredType of agent
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Bail′ee′ (bāl′ē′), noun
Origin: OF. baillé, 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, Sir William
☞ In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith. Francis Wharton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54