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BAILEE HIRE [6 records]

Record 1 2015-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Tort Law (common law)
CONT

A chauffeur who takes his employer's car without authority collides with a cyclist. His employer is not responsible. Yet if the car also suffered damage and was entrusted to the employer under a bailment for purposes of hire on repair, he would be answerable to the bailor, not because of any vicarious or imputed liability but because of his personal duty as bailee.

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des délits (common law)
OBS

responsabilité imputée : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2013-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

(H)ire, a letting-out. (Jowitt, p. 1114).

CONT

Bailments are of six kinds, the classification being of importance from the different nature of the bailee's liability in each case...(3) when goods are left for hire with the bailee to be used by him; this is called "locatio et conductio"...(Jowitt, p. 176)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

locatum; locatio; locatio conductio; locatio et conductio : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2013-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

(W) hen goods are left for hire with the bailee to be used by him; this is called "locatio et conductio", and the lender is called "locator"....(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 176)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

baillant-loueur; baillante-loueuse : termes normalisés par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-10-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

A person to whom possession of personal property is transferred and who is compensated for caring for such property. (Black,s, 5th ed., 1979, p. 128).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

baillaire rémunéré : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

(W) hen goods are left for hire with the bailee to be used by him; this is called "locatio et conductio",... and the borrower "conductor"....(Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, p. 176)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

baillaire-locataire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

The person to whom a bailment is made. (Ballentine’s, 3rd ed., 1969, p. 119).

CONT

The bailor is he who has given possession; the bailee is the keeper for safe custody, the carrier, the warehouse keeper, the innkeeper, the tailor making the suit out of his customer's cloth, the pawnbroker, the agisting farmer, the reader of a borrowed book, the hirer or hire purchaser of a motor car, the finder of a lost chattel, and, possibly, the distrainor; the bailee... may be paid or unpaid.(Crossley Vaines, 5th ed., 1973, p. 70).

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

baillaire : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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