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Bailment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A delivery of goods, in trust, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.

Bailment [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The action of bailing a person accused.

2. A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed.