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Bailment is distinguished from a contract of sale or a gift of property, as it only involves the transfer of possession and not its ownership.To create a bailment, the bailee must both intend to possess, and actually physically possess, the bailable chattel for example a car mechanic business when a car has been dropped off for repair.
Sub-bailment, duty of care, theft Morris v CW Martin & Sons Ltd [1966] 1 QB 716 is an English tort law case, establishing that sub-bailees are liable for the theft or negligence of their staff. Both Lord Denning and Diplock LJ rejected the idea that a contract need exist for a relationship of bailor and bailee to be found.
Bailment, negligence, strict liability, common carrier Coggs v Bernard (1703) 2 Ld Raym 909 (also Coggs v Barnard ) is a landmark case both for English property law and contract law , decided by Sir John Holt , Chief Justice of the King's Bench .
In property law, lost, mislaid, and abandoned property are categories of the common law of property which deals with personal property or chattel which has left the possession of its rightful owner without having directly entered the possession of another person.
In detinue sur bailment, the defendant is in a bailment relationship with the claimant and either refuses to return the chattel or else has negligently or intentionally lost or destroyed it. The onus is on the bailee to prove that the loss of the chattel was not his or her fault.
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The maritime history of the United States goes back to the first successful English colony was established in 1607, on the James River at Jamestown.It languished for decades until a new wave of settlers arrived in the late 17th century and set up commercial agriculture based on exports of tobacco to England.