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Bailment for hire

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A contract in which the bailor agrees to pay an adequate recompense for the safe-keeping of the thing intrusted to the custody of the bailee, and the bnilee agrees to keep it and restore it on the request of the bailor, in the same condition substantially as he received it, excepting injury or loss from causes for which he is not responsible. Arent v. Squire, 1 Daly (N. Y.) 356.

Defined under Bailment in Black's Law Dictionary.