This section is from the book "Popular Law Library Vol5 Sales, Personal Property, Bailments, Carriers, Patents, Copyrights", by Albert H. Putney. Also available from Amazon: Popular Law-Dictionary.
The most important classes of bailments are those for the mutual benefit of both the bailor and the bailee. In such bailments the bailee is held to the exercise of ordinary care in relation to the subject matter of the bailment, and is liable for what is known as "ordinary negligence."1 The important species of bailment of this character are the pignus or pledge and the various forms of the locatio.
 
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