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Title: Personal Property Bailments


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Personal PropertyBailments
  • 2009 edition

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Bailments
  • Definition
  • Relationship BR BE
  • Duties of BE protect redeliver
  • Elements actual control intent to control
  • Types voluntary contractual implied in fact
  • involuntary implied in law
  • Non-bailments sales, gifts leases
  • Two special issues Scope hidden items
  • Mistake in value

3
Bailments
  • Duties of BE protect redeliver
  • Duty to Protect Sliding scale of liability
  • . BR benefits gross negligence
  • . Mutual ordinary negligence
  • . BE benefits slight negligence
  • Duty to redeliver
  • . Old cases strict liability
  • . Progressive cases strict liability voluntary
    B
  • negligence involuntary B

4
Analyzing a Bailment Problem
  • 1. Does a bailment exist? (Are the two elements
    met 1) BEs actual control of the bailed chattel
    2) BEs intent to possess it?)
  • 2. If so - is the chattel within the scope of the
    bailment? (N.B. hidden object problem mistake
    in value problem)

5
Analyzing a Bailment Problem
  • 3. If so, is which BE duty is at issue
  • duty to protect? and/or
  • duty to deliver?

6
Analyzing a Bailment Problem
  • 4a. If duty to protect apply correct standard
  • of care per benefit of bailment
  • BRs benefit p must prove gross negligence
  • Mutual benefit p must prove ordinary
  • negligence
  • BEs benefit p must prove slight negligence

7
Analyzing a Bailment Problem
  • 4a. If duty to redeliver involved apply correct
  • standard per voluntary or involuntary bailment
  • Voluntary bailment strict liability
  • Involuntary bailment
  • . older case law strict liability
  • . progressive case law negligence

8
Bailments Hypos
  • P(aula) buys a personal computer and has it
  • delivered to her home. The UPS man leaves
  • the package containing the computer on
  • D(an)s front porch but it is addressed to P
  • who lives next door. Before D gets home
  • from work, the package is stolen.
  • Is D liable?

9
Bailments Hypos
  • Same facts except - D arrives home and
  • takes the package into his living room.
  • One hour later Ds five-year old son, Raul
  • opens the box and pours a tumbler of milk
  • into a hard drive destroying the
  • computer.
  • Is D liable?

10
Bailments Hypos
  • Suppose the computer is left on Ds porch. When
  • D gets home he takes the box and gives it to a
  • person (call him X(avier)) who seems to be
  • working on Ps lawn. D tells X to deliver the box
  • to P but X never delivers the box to P instead
    X
  • keeps the computer.
  • Is D liable?

11
Bailments Hypos
  • P is about to go to Europe on an extended
  • vacation. She asks D, her neighbor, whether she
  • can store her Maserati in his garage while she is
  • gone. He agrees and receives no compensation
  • for it. While P is in the Alps, vandals enter
    the
  • garage and damage the Maserati. Apparently
  • that night, D forgot to lock his garage door.
    If P
  • sues D for the value of the necessary repairs,
  • What standard of negligence applies?

12
Bailments Hypos
  • D asks P if he can borrow her riding lawn mower
  • to cut his lawn. While using the mower, D
  • notices excess smoke coming from the engine
  • but he ignores it and finishes cutting the lawn.
  • Later it is learned that the mower was low on oil
  • and when D failed to stop the engine while
  • cutting, the engine burned out. If P sues D for
  • 2000 to replace the motor.
  • What standard of negligence applies?

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