- Bailee
- Bailee Bail`ee" (b[=a]l`[=e]"), n. [OF. baill['e], p. p. of
bailler. See {Bail} to deliver.] (Law)
The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has
a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for
the purposes of the trust. --Blackstone.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith. --Wharton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.