WAREHOUSEMA

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

  WAREHOUSEMAN. A warehouseman is a person who receives goods and merchandise 
  to be stored in his warehouse for hire. 
       2. He is bound to use ordinary care in preserving such goods and 
  merchandise, and his neglect to do so will render him liable to the owner. 
  Peake, R. 114; 1 Esp. R. 315; Story, Bailm. Sec. 444; Jones' Bailm. 49, 96, 
  97; 7 Cowen's R. 497; 12 John. Rep. 232; 2 Wend. R. 593; 9 Wend. R. 268; 1 


  Stew. Rep. 284. The warehouseman's liability commences as soon as the goods 
  arrive, and the crane of the warehouse is applied to raise them into the 
  warehouse. 4 Esp. R. 262.