Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bailee"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bailee \Bail`ee"\, n. [OF. baill['e], 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.

Note: In penal statutes the word includes those who receive
goods for another in good faith. --Wharton.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bailee
n : the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is
delivered


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