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BAILLANT [4 records]

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Record 1 2013-02-06

English

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

A bailment without compensation; according to some authority (sic) a bailment intended for the sole benefit of the bailor or a bailment intended for the sole benefit of the bailee. (Ballentine, p. 534)

CONT

Gratuitous bailment (is) another name for a "depositum" or naked bailment, which is made only for the benefit of the bailor and is not a source of profit to the bailee. (Black's, 5th ed., 1979, p. 129)

French

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

Au sens large, le terme «gratuitous bailment» inclut le «depositum», le «mandatum» et le «commodatum». Dans un sens plus restreint, il peut viser les deux premiers qui sont pour l'avantage du baillant et, dans un sens plus restreint encore, il peut se limiter à «depositum».

OBS

baillement à titre gratuit : 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 2 2013-02-06

English

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

The privileged position of the gratuitous bailor or donor had not been a deliberately conceived exception to the general principle of liability, but merely an illustration of the undeveloped state of the law in the nineteenth century. (Palmer, p. 353)

French

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

baillant à titre gratuit : 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 3 2012-10-30

English

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

(A) person who entrusts goods to another person (the bailee) for a specific purpose. (Jowitt's, 2nd ed., 1977, pp. 176-177).

French

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

baillant; baillante : 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 1977-07-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

In certain somewhat modified (...) [Lamellibranchs] in which the foot, though more or less large, is feebly retractile, the valves do not meet and fit perfectly together along the ventral edge and are "gaping" (...)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

(...) ces coquilles ont leurs valves généralement écartées dans la région postérieure et dans la région antérieure; elles sont "bâillantes"; (...)

Spanish

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