Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Actual bailment
a bailment that arises from an actual or constructive delivery of property to the bailee.
Bailment
1. A delivery of personal property by one person (the bailor) to another (the bailee) who holds the property for a certain purpose under an express or implied-in-fact contract. ( unlike a sale or gift of personal property, a bailment involves a change in possession but not in title. Cf. Pawn.
Bailment for hire
a bailment for which the bailee is compensated, as when one leaves a car with a parking attendant. - also termed lucrative bailment.
Bailment for mutual benefit
a bailment for which the bailee is compensated and from which the bailor receives some additional benefit, as when one leaves a car with a parking attendant who will also wash the car while it is parked.
Constructive bailment
A bailment that arises when the law imposes an obligation on a possessor of personal property to return the property to its rightful owner, as with an involuntary bailment.
Gratuitous bailment
A bailment for which the bailee receives no compensatibn, as when one borrows a friend's car. 0 a gratuitous bailee is liable for loss of the property only if the loss is caused by the bailee's gross negligence. - also termed naked bailment; depositum; naked deposit; gratuitous deposit; deposit.
Involuntary bailment
a bailment that arises when a person accidentally, but without any negligence, leaves personal property in another's possession. ( an involuntary bailee who refuses to return the property to the owner can be liable for conversion. -also termed involuntary deposit. See abandoned property, lost property, mislaid property under property. Lucrative bailment. See bailment for hire. Naked bailment. See gratuitous bailment.2. The personal property delivered by the bailor to the bailee. 3. The contract or legal relation resulting from such a delivery. 4. The act of posting bail for a criminal defendant. 5. The documentation for the posting of bail for a criminal defendant.
actual bailment.
See BAILMENT.
constructive bailment
See BAILMENT.
detinue sur bailment
[Law French] Hist. An action to recov-er property that the defendant acquired by bailment but refuses to return.
gratuitous bailment.
See BAILMENT.
involuntary bailment
See BAILMENT.
lucrative bailment
See bailment for hire under BAILMENT.
naked bailment
See gratuitous bailment under BAILMENT.