Sale and return
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
This is a species of contract by which the seller (usually a manufacturer or wholesaler) delivers a quantity of goods to the buyer, on the understanding that, if the latter should desire to retain or use or resell any portion of such goods, he will consider such part as having been sold to him, and will pay their price, and the balance he will return to the seller, dr hold them, as bailee, subject to his order.
Sturm v. Boker, 150 U. S. 312 , 14 Sup. Ct. 99, 37 I Ed. 1093; Haskins v. Dem, 19 Utah, 89, 56 Pac. 953; Hickman v. Shimp, 109 Pa. 16.