- constructive bailment
- The holding of a chattel under such circumstances that the law imposes upon the person in possession the obligation to deliver the chattel to another. 8 Am J2d Bailm § 8.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
constructive bailment
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