Assertion: bailment's owner | /r/HasProperty | liable
Facets:
value: to ensure
type: PURPOSE
value: bizarrely
type: DEGREE
value: to the bailee
type: LOCATION
value: in several states
type: LOCATION
value: as common carriers
type: MANNER
value: to third persons
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: In several states, when an automobile owner (bailor) lends a vehicle to a friend (bailee) who causes an accident, the owner is liable to third persons injured in the accident.
text: The case arose on error, from the Court of Common Pleas in New York, which had charged the jury that the owners of a vessel bringing goods from New Orleans to New York were liable as common carriers.
text: If the owner lends goods to another party for a fixed term of 12 months, and during that 12 months the other party (the bailee) gives them temporarily back to the original owner for a lesser period (say for 1 month part way through the 12 month term) and if the owner loses the goods during that 1 month period, the owner may bizarrely be liable to the bailee for breach of bailment, even though the owner technically still own the goods (the interplay can be complex!).
text: The owner of goods can be liable to the bailee to ensure the goods are not likely to cause the bailee any unreasonable harm.
text: The owner would be liable if your windshield gets broken, someone crashes into your car, someone steals your car, or someone breaks into your car while the lot owner was not exercising reasonable care to prevent harm from happening to your car.