Preface

• Author: Robert H Tanha
• Pages: 21-23

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Preface

This book has been written to promote the importance of the common

law of bailment to transactions that people engage in every day, such as

depositing their goods for storage with a business or lending a iend their

vehicle to drive for the weekend while they go out of town. Certain duties

and rights arise om all these bailment transactions, not least of which is

the bailee’s overarching duty of safekeeping goods for the duration of the

bailment, which, if breached, gives plaintis the right to sue in damages

for their losses.

This book explores all aspects of the bailment transaction, both om

the perspective of the bailee and bailor. It attempts to simpli the rules

of bailment and make them more intelligible for the law student, lawyer,

judge, and members of the public who are seeking to understand, or better

understand, a bailment law rule. This is done using numerous examples

arising om the caselaw and through providing the reader with statements

of law on all aspects of bailment that are clear and understandable—but

at the same time, appropriately qualied, meaningful, and usable. Major

discrepancies in the caselaw have been noted and solutions have been

oered up to address them throughout the book.

In terms of organizational structure, the general concepts of the law

of bailment—including the elements and nature of a bailment, as well as

how bailment diers om other heads of legal obligation—are discussed

in Chapter 1. An eort is made to distinguish bailment om other types

of legal obligations that may arise in circumstances similar to those trig-

gering a bailment, including trust, conversion, consignment, and licence,