Bail`ee" (bāl`ē"), n. [OF. baillé, p. p. of bailler. See Bail to deliver.] (Law) 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. Blackstone.

&fist; In penal statutes the word includes those who receive goods for another in good faith. Wharton.