Bailment is necessarily dealt with by the Contract Act only so far as it is a kind of contract, but there can be a bailment and relationship of a bailor and a bailee in respect of specific property without an enforceable contract.1Bailment is dealt with by the Contract Act where it arises from a contract, but it is not correct to say that there cannot be a bailment without an enforceable contract. Bailment can arise de hors a contract, latter alone being dealt with in the Contract Act.

1Trustees of the Port of Bombay v Premier Automobiles Ltd AIR 1981 SC 1982, (1981) 1 SCC 228