Definition of Entrustment

1. Noun. The act of entrusting. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Entrustment

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Entrustment

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entropic doom
entropically
entropies
entropion
entropionise
entropions
entropium
entropy
entropy trapping
entropyless
entropylike
entrust
entrusted
entrusting
entrustment (current term)
entrustments
entrusts
entry
entry-level
entry points for the eye
entry word
entry wound
entry zone
entryism
entryisms
entryist
entryists
entryless

Literary usage of Entrustment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property: With References by Judah Philip Benjamin, James Manford Kerr (1888)
"39, it was held that the agent must have been actually entrusted at the time of the pledge, and if the entrustment had been withdrawn, ..."

2. The Contract of Pawn: As it Exists at Common Law, and as Modified by the by Francis Turner (1883)
"The Courts held the facts of these cases to show mere possession of the things pledged, without any entrustment. There was no sale to the fraudulent ..."

3. The Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity by William Linn Westermann (1984)
"Only the human guarantors could be penalized. " The following manumissions by entrustment to Apollo have been selected at random to show the constancy ..."

4. The Canadian Law Times by Armour, Edward Douglas, 1851-1922, Judicial Committee, Great Britain, Elliott, Charles, Privy Council, Gillis, Edward, Hunter, Alfred Taylour, 1867-1957, Thompson, Bram (1885)
"... if he could show that he had revoked that authority before the pledge or sale, no matter how notorious the entrustment or how secret the revocation, ..."

5. Benjamin's Treatise on the Law of Sale of Personal Property: With References by Judah Philip Benjamin, Arthur Beilby Pearson, Hugh Fenwick Boyd, Charles Lyon Corbin (1884)
"To constitute an entrustment with a document of title under 6 Geo. ... 15 But this has now been altered by the definition of entrustment given in 5 and 6 ..."

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