What is the legal test for a bailment?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Liska v. Bank of British Columbia, 1981 CanLII 1199 (AB QB):
In Coggs v. Bernard (1703), 92 E.R. 107, Holt C.J. in describing the several classes of bailments said [p. 109]: "The fourth sort is, when goods or chattels are delivered to another as a pawn, to be a security to him for money borrowed of him by the bailor; and this is called in Latin vadium, and in English a pawn or a pledge."
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