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The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.

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  1. n. The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust.
  2. n. the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered
  3. The word/person">person to whom word/goods">goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone. Note: In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith. Wharton.
  4. The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has atemporary possession and a qualified property in them, for thepurposes of the trust. Blackstone.
  5. n. the agent to whom property involved in a bailment is delivered