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bailment

legal relationship in common law where physical possession of personal property, or a chattel, is transferred from one person (the "bailor") to another person (the "bailee")
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bailment

Summary

bailment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (80 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • bailment's part of is recorded as English property law[2].
  • bailment's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01h3v1[3].
  • bailment's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[4].
  • bailment's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as money/bailment[5].
  • bailment's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2781206257[6].

Why It Matters

bailment ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (80 views/month).[1] bailment has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7] bailment is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[8]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_bailment_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{bailment}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/bailment}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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