Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bailment

Bailment ({not transcribed}) , noun

1.
(Law) The action of bailing a person accused.
Bailment... is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. — Dalton
2.
(Law) A delivery of goods or money by one person to another in trust, for some special purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed. — Blackstone

In a general sense it is sometimes used as comprehending all duties in respect to property.