( 177 ) in trust for some special object or purpose, and upon a contract, express or implied, to conform to the object or purpose of the trust. Story on Bailm. § 2. -- **All these definitions, except the last, are based, with some variation, upon the two definitions of Sir William Jones:- "A delivery of goods on a condition, expressed or implied, that they shall be restored by the bailee to the bailor, or according to his directions, as soon as the purpose for which they were bailed shall be answered." Jones on Bailm. 1. A delivery of goods in trust, on a contract expressed or implied, that the trust shall be duly executed, and the goods re-delivered as soon as the time or use for which they were bailed shall have elapsed or be performed." Id. 117. A very prominent feature of these definitions is the restoration or re-delivery of the article bailed to the bailor, which they declare to be one of the objects of the contract on the part of the bailee. This idea of restoration is entirely dropped by Sir William Blackstone in his definition, but is taken up again by Mr. Stephen, though with considerable modification, and is expressly adopted by Chancellor Kent, while, on the other hand, no reference is made to it in the definition of Judge Story. It is clear that the restoration of the thing bailed to the bailor, either in specie, or in a new form agreed upon, does in fact constitute a part of the contract in nearly all the varieties of bailment; but it is no less clear that one species of bailment, and that perhaps the most important of all, (the locatio operis mercium vehendarum, or bailment of goods to be carried for hire,) is quite free from any such contract on the part of the bailec. The difficulty in defining bailment is to explain, with sufficient clearness, what the contract is, and to avoid at the same time going into particulars not common to every one of its varieties. Among the older definitions, that of Finch is the most simple and comprehensive. "Bailment is a delivery of goods in possession, and is either to keep or employ." Finch's Law, b. 2, ch. 18. (178) writ was issued to the sheriff to take possession of a whale which had come ashore in the county of Essex, the proper Latin word cete is made use of. Mem. in Scacc. H. 24 Edw. I.