bailee Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered

WordNet

Bail`ee" noun
Etymology
OF. baillé, p.p. of bailler. See Bail to deliver.
Definitions
  1. (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. ✍ In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith. Wharton.

Webster 1913