Bailments for the mutual benefit of bailor and bailee include deliveries of property to carriers, pledges, renting property, or hiring the bailee to perform work on the property bailed, or hiring the bailee to care for the property.
The bailee is not permitted to dispute the title of the bailor for his own benefit.
This also includes the hiring of a bailee to carry goods from one place to another.
If a third person takes property away from a bailee may the latter recover possession?
If the bailment is for the sole benefit of the bailor, the bailee receiving no compensation for his inconvenience and work, he is required to exercise only slight care, and is liable only for gross negligence.
If the articles are retained by the passenger, the carrier is liable only as a bailee for hire.
By a lien is meant the right of the bailee to retain possession until the value of his labor or material has been received.
If thebailee yields possession to one whose right of possession and title are inferior to the bailor's, the bailee is answerable to the bailor for any losses sustained.
The delivery must be sufficient to enable the bailee to secure the possession of the goods, and to control the possession during the period to be covered by the bailment, to the exclusion of the bailor.
A bailee of property is required to exercise a certain degree of care in the use, preservation and protection of the property placed in his possession, and is liable for a certain degree of negligence.
Property loaned to a bailee for the latter's accommodation constitutes a bailment for the sole benefit of the bailee.
If the bailee uses the property for any purpose other than that for which it was bailed, or if he exceeds the authority of the bailor in the use of the property, he is liable for injuries resulting.
If, however, the property is taken away from the bailee by action at law, by one whose title is superior to that of the bailor, the bailee is relieved from liability to the bailor.
In the case of hiring the bailee is bound to use such diligence as a prudent man would exercise towards his own property.
In this case, the bailee has no right to use the thing entrusted to him, and is liable for gross negligence, but not for ordinary negligence.
Depositum, or bailment without reward, in order that the bailee may keep the goods for the bailor.
The bailee may be justly considered as representing himself to the bailor to be a person of competent skill to take care of the thing lent (Wilson v.
Commodatum, or loan, where goods or chattels that are useful are lent to the bailee gratis, to be used by him.
In this case, the bailee is bound to use ordinary diligence in preserving the property entrusted to him.
Yes, the bailee is the person the thing is bailed to.
And if it was for the common benefit of both, then if the bailee takes what may be called good care of it, he is not liable to pay; if he does not take good care, he is.
The inverted explanation of Beaumanoir will be remembered, that the bailee could sue because he was answerable over, in place of the original rule, that he was answerable over so strictly because only he could sue.
The bailor has the power and intent to exclude the bailee from the goods, and therefore may be said to be in possession of them as against the bailee.
But the bailee holds in his own as we say, following the Roman idiom, and the servant or agent holding as such does not.
At first the bailee was answerable to the owner, because he was the only person who could sue.
A bailee was in general liable for goods stolen from his custody, whether he had a lien or not.
While this relation of bailor and bailee exists, the owner is not ordinarily responsible for the negligence of the garageman or his servants in the care or operation of the automobile.
In many cases the bailee is not required to return the specific property, but other property of the same kind and quality.
For example, if it were a kicking horse, he should warn the bailee to keep away from his legs.
And if the bailee is a finder who has bestowed labor on the article found in good faith, the same rule applies.
A bailee has a lien for his service and proper expenditures in caring for and preserving the thing bailed, but not for any other debt the bailor may owe him.
A bailee received some cheese and gave a receipt slating that it was to be kept at the owner's risk of loss from water.
A bailee who was a cold storage keeper, stated in his receipt "all damage to property is at the owner's risk.
To what extent can a bailee limit his liability by agreement?
The destruction of a thing in the course of alteration or repair without the fault of the bailee is a case like that above mentioned.
Can a creditor of the baileepounce on tanned hides or completed fabrics as belonging to him and take them in satisfaction of his debt?
If the bailee is not negligent or otherwise at fault, and the loss happened by internal defect or inevitable accident, the bailor would be the loser.
The company is the bailee with the power to change the bailor's separate ownership into an ownership in common with others of a larger mass, and back again.
He should give the bailee notice of all the faults in the thing bailed that would expose him to danger or loss in keeping it.
No criticism not entirety laudatory, which the Involuntary Bailee may make of his correspondent's MS.
Lord Tennyson has suffered from all these troubles to an extent which the average Baileecan only fancy by looking with his mind's eye through "patent double million magnifiers.
Lord Tennyson is probably the most extensive Involuntary Bailee at present living.
An Involuntary Bailee is a person to whom people (generally unknown to him) send things which he does not wish to receive, but which they are anxious to have returned.
A warehouseman is a bailee for hire, and a bailee for hire is liable for neglect if the goods are destroyed or injured by his negligence.
It has been questioned whether a safe deposit company is properly a bailee of the goods in the boxes to which the safe deposit company does not have access.
The bailee must recognize the title only of the person who is appointed by law as the successor in interest to the deceased person.
But it is doing a little more than guarding, and it is generally held to be a bailee for hire; that means it must take reasonable care of the goods in its possession.
The ordinarybailee for hire is not subject to the extraordinary liability to which a carrier is subjected while goods are in transit.
It is not quite accurate to say that the receiver of a letter is merely a trustee or bailee for particular purposes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bailee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
