 Bailment is a delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or -purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust Story, Bailm.  Pittsburgh Reports - Page 462edited by - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Story - Bailments - 1832 - 460 pages
...of Jones and Blackstone. Without professing to enter into a minute criticism, it may be said, that a. bailment is a delivery of a thing in trust for...some special object or purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust. 1 Jones's Bailm. 117. 2 2 Bl.... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 504 pages
...others, he goes on to say : ' Without professing to enter into a minute criticism, it may be said, that a bailment is a delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust. ' § 3. Bailments are properly... | |
 | Sidney Willard - American literature - 1832 - 560 pages
...branch of law as lying at the foundation of many commercial contracts. He defines a bailment to be, " A delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust." (Page 2.) Bailments, it is added,... | |
 | Joseph Rockwell Swan - Constables - 1837 - 614 pages
...is the delivery of goods in trust, for some specific object or purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust. The person who delivers the goods is called the bailor, and he to whom the goods arc delivered is called... | |
 | Law - 1841 - 522 pages
...Story considers neither of these définitions to be strictly correct, and gives his own thus :— ' A delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract expressed or iuiplied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust.' If these remarks shall be extended to... | |
 | Esek Cowen - Justices of the peace - 1841 - 590 pages
...by Mr. Justice Story in his learned work on the Law of Bailments ; he defines it to be a delivery(l) of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust.(r) The one who delivers the thing,... | |
 | John Bouvier - Anglo-Norman dialect - 1843 - 752 pages
...for a particular use. 2 Bl. Com. 395. Vide Kent's Comm. Lect. 40, 437. Mr. Justice Story says, that a bailment is a delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust. Story on Bailm. c. 1, § 2. This... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Law - 1845 - 1174 pages
...indicated by it. Mr. Justice Story, acknowledging the difficulty of doing so, defines it (§ 2.) to be a " delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust j" correctly stating it to lie... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 866 pages
...re-delivered, which is not the case always, as, eg, on a consignment for sale. lie defines Bailment to be "a delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract express or implied to conform to the object or purpose of the trust," (page 2.) See for the various... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 770 pages
...Kent, 559. The accuracy of this definition is questioned by Judge STORY, who defines a bailment as " a delivery of a thing in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust." — Story on Bailments, § 2.... | |
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