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Trust

comprehensive expression, as covering not only the relationship of trustee and beneficiary but also that a bailor and bailee master and servant pledger and pledgee, guardian and ward and all other relations which postulate the existence of

Socida

Socida, a contract or hiring, upon condition that the bailee take upon himself the risk of the loss of the thing hired, Civ. Law.

Pawnee

or performance of a promise is called 'pledge'. The bailor is in this case called the 'pawnor'. The bailee is called 'pawnee'. Indian Contract Act, 1872 (9 of 1872), s. 172 The person with whom a pawn

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Naturalis possessio

object is limited by a recognition of another person's outstanding right the holder may be a usufructuary, a bailee, or a servant, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1049

Larceny

possession of a true owner (including one who has a qualified property only in the goods, as a bailee), and without his consent; where there is, then, no change of possession, or a change of it by

Innkeeper

the innkeeper. By 'expressly' is meant that the bailor's intention must be brought to the mind of the bailee or his agent in some reasonable and intelligible manner, Whitehouse v. Pickett, 1908 AC 357. A copy of

Actio ex conducto

Actio ex conducto, an action by a bailor of a thing for hire, against a bailee, to compel him to deliver the thing hired, Civil Law.

Delivery order

Rameshwar, AIR 1978 SC 389 (396). [Sale of Goods Act, 1930, s. 2(4)] --A writing directed to the bailee of goods mentioned in the order requesting him to deliver over the goods to the person named in

Bailor, or Bailer

Bailor, or Bailer, a person who commits goods to another person (the bailee) in trust for a specific purpose.

As against, as between

tacit reference to a different relationship between one of them and a third person. For instance, the temporary bailee of a chattel is entitled to it, as between himself and a stranger, or as against a stranger;

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