LLB220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bailment, Pawnbroker, Apparent Authority
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Whenever one person is knowingly and willingly in possession of goods that belong to another. Not a purely proprietary conecept laws or property, contract and tort. Daily lives borrowing/lending, storage of goods. Commercial transactions transport, storage, display of goods for sale. Legal practice safe custody: hawkins v clayton [1998] Bailor has a right to future possession during bailment and a right to immediate possession at the conclusion of the bailment. Bailor has an immediate right to possession. Thieves can have possessory title for the purpose of remedies being granted gainst them fistar v. May occur when goods are left behind or misdelivery robot arenas. Minimal duties but goods cannot be wantonly destroyed. Disposal may be done under the uncollected goods act 1995 (nsw) Any benefit, however, prospective, caused the bailor or bailee to enter into the bailment, or continue the relationship. Bailment for reward is of mutual benefit.
