Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 44. PROPERTY · Chapter 12. RIGHTS IN PERSONALTY · Article 3. BAILMENTS · Part 1. IN GENERAL

44-12-40. “Bailment” defined.

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A bailment is a delivery of goods or property upon a contract, express or implied, to carry out the execution of a special object beneficial either to the bailor or bailee or both and to dispose of the property in conformity with the purpose of the trust.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 2031; Code 1868, § 2032; Code 1873, § 2058; Code 1882, § 2058; Civil Code 1895, § 2894; Civil Code 1910, § 3467; Code 1933, § 12-101.

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For comment on Goodyear Clearwater Mills v. Wheeler, 77 Ga. App. 570, 49 S.E.2d 184 (1948), see 11 Ga. B.J. 229 (1948).

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