issued by the railway administration let the consignor, a contract of bailment took place between the railway administration and the consignor as a result ... Majmundar contended that petitioner was entitled to sue under the contract of bailment, entered into between the consignor and the railway administration. We will discuss
contract of hiring, without more, is a species of the contract of bailment, which does not create a title in the bailee ... quoted above, the transaction partakes of the nature of a contract or bailment with an element of Sale, as aforesaid, added to it. In such
issued by the railway administration to the consignor a contract of bailment took place between the railway administration ant the consignor as a result ... Majmudar contended that petitioner was entitled to sue under the contract of bailment entered into between the consignor and the railway administration. We will discuss
hire purchase agreement has two elements : (1)
element of bailment and (2) element of sale in the sense
that it contemplates an eventual sale ... hire-purchase agreement of
this kind had two elements, one of bailment and the other of
sale, and rejected the contention of the appellant that
himself or indirectly in possession by his servants but applied also where bailment of the property was made by or on behalf of the foreign ... gold bars which were still subject to the contract of bailment; inasmuch as "possession" within the meaning of the doctrine of immunity included
circumstances of the case that it was a case of simple bailment, and not a case in which a bailee had acquired any right, title ... possession. See Pollock and Wright on Possession (1888), p. 166; Real on Bailments (1900), p. 40; and Halsbury's Laws of England
bailor and bailee. If that is so, section 148 defines the bailment in the following terms :-
" A 'bailment' is the delivery ... Nonetheless the contractual obligation which the Railway had incurred by accepting the bailment can be discharged only in reference to the bailor. It must
does not lake any notice of the termination of the contract of bailment, and omitting all reference to bailment has used the word depositary with ... understood the term 'deposit' as used in sense of a bailment in Roman law. That judgment was affirmed by the Bench
Indian Contract Act . Chapter IX of this Act dealt with bailment and provided the principles of liability of a bailee. In section ... Contract Act, a bailment is defined as "the delivery of goods by one person to another for some purpose, upon a contract that they
debtor, in these cases.
12. The difference between debt, bailment and trust is clearly brought out by Scott in the following extract from volume ... page 3345 :
" If the relation is one of bailment or trust and the banker appropriates to his own purposes the thing or money deposited
