Bailor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bailor \Bail`or"\, n. (Law)
     One who delivers goods or money to another in trust.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  bailor
       n : the person who delivers personal property (goods or money)
           in trust to the bailee in a bailment

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BAILOR, contracts. He who bails a thing to another.
       2. The bailor must act with good faith towards the bailee; Story's 
  Bailm. Sec. 74, 76, 77; permit him to enjoy the thing bailed according to 
  contract; and, in some bailments, as hiring, warrant the title and 
  possession of the thing hired, and probably, to keep it in suitable order 
  and repair for the purpose of the bailment. Id. Sec. Vide Inst. lib. 3, tit. 
  25.