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Bailee

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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Agent 76% connected

Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.

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Bail 74% connected

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

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Bail 74% connected

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.

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Administrator noun · 78% connection

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right o…

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Assessment noun · 78% connection

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be l…

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Assignee noun · 78% connection

(law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)

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Bailment noun · 78% connection

A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that…

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Barratry noun · 78% connection

A fraudulent breach of duty or willful act of known illegality on the part of a master of a ship, in his character of master, or of th…

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Betaught adjective · 78% connection

Delivered; committed in trust.

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Caesarism noun · 78% connection

A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committ…

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Commissary noun · 78% connection

One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner.

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Committee verb · 78% connection

One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.

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Committible adjective · 78% connection

Capable of being committed; liable to be committed.

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Credit noun · 78% connection

Trust given or received; expectation of future playment for property transferred, or of fulfillment or promises given; mercantile repu…

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Donee noun · 78% connection

Anciently, one to whom lands were given; in later use, one to whom lands and tenements are given in tail; in modern use, one on whom a…

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Eligible adjective · 78% connection

That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

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Embezzle verb · 78% connection

To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust…

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Factor noun · 78% connection

One who transacts business for another; an agent; a substitute; especially, a mercantile agent who buys and sells goods and transacts…

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Gift verb · 78% connection

A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal…

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Guardian verb · 78% connection

One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from inj…

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Heir noun · 78% connection

One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law besto…

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