Bailments may be of several types: a bailment may be gratuitous[?] when the bailee receives no compensation (as when you borrow your friend's notebook computer to work on an open source online encyclopedia project because he believes in the open source movement and wants to help you out), or a bailment for hire for which the bailee is compensated as in the parking garage example above, another common example is the coatcheck person.
A constructive bailment is a legal obligation that is imposed upon someone who has possession of property to return that property to the rightful owner as when the bailment is involuntary (do without intent or by accident by without negligence. An involuntary bailee may be liable in conversion if they do not return the property on the request of the bailor.
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