Responsibility for an Object Presented for Guarding
A person should stay away from guarding objects for others: Yevamot 109a-b
Power of a Guardian to give the Charge to another Guardian to watch: Gittin 14a; Bava Kama 11b; Bava Metzia 36a-b, 42a-b
Return of the Item must be done with the knowledge of the owner: Bava Metzia 31a
Item must be returned into the owner's property: Bava Metzia 31a
Does one become a guardian if someone asks him to guard an item and he says, "Put it down before me": Bava Metzia 80b
Does one become a guardian if someone asks him to guard an item and he says, "Put it down before yourself": Bava Metzia 81b
Does one become a guardian if someone asks him to guard an item and he says, "Put it down": Bava Metzia 81b
Does one become a guardian if he permits someone to bring an item into his yard: Bava Metzia 81b
If the guardian falsely denies financial liability, he brings a Guilt Offering: Bava Metzia 35b-36a
The owner automatically accepts that the guardian may give the object to his wife or adult children: Bava Metzia 36a-b, 42a-b
The guardian may not move the Charge without the knowledge of the owner that it is to be moved: Bava Metzia 40b, 43b
Where the guardian's agent misunderstands his instructions, and so damages the Charge: Bava Metzia 42b-43a
Rules for Protection of Specific Objects
Protective Treatment of a New/Old Torah Scroll: Bava Metzia 29b
Protective Treatment of a Vessel: Bava Metzia 30a
Burial of Guarded Money must be below One Tefach [Fist-Breadth] of Earth: Pesachim 31b
Money: Berachot 18b; Bava Metzia 42a [2x]
Money given to a normal person, merchant, or money-changer for guarding: Bava Metzia 43a
Deterioration of the Charge
Responsiblity of a Guardian to sell the Charge if it is depreciating more rapidly than usual, as Return of Lost Property: Pesachim 13a-b, Bava Metzia 38a-b
In the Above case, not allowing the Guardian to buy the Charge himself, to prevent Suspicion: Pesachim 13a, Bava Metzia 38a
Selling the Deteriorating Charge to a Kohen, in exchange for money which was Terumah, in fear that the owner of the item might have designated it as Terumah on other produce: Bava Metzia 38a
Defining the "normal" level of deterioration of an item, beyond which it is to be sold off: Bava Metzia 38a
Defining the "normal" level of deterioriation, in calculating the amount which the guardian must return to the owner: Bava Metzia 40a, 40b
Selling the Deteriorating Charge, after it has stopped deteriorating: Bava Metzia 38a-b
Negligence - Peshiah
Is a guardian considered negligent if he slips and falls while carrying his charge: Bava Metzia 82b-83a
If the guardian first endangered his charge negligently, and then in the end it was damaged through unforeseeable means: Bava Metzia 36b, 42a
If one doesn't know where the item is, he is liable for negligence: Bava Metzia 35a, 42a
If the guardian moved the item for its own sake or for his benefit, and it broke during/after the move, and the owner had/hadn't designated a specific place for it: Bava Metzia 40b-41a
The guardian must not move the item without the knowledge of the owner: Bava Metzia 40b, 43b
The guardian must guard the item in what is considered "Standard Fashion": Bava Metzia 36a-b, 42a
Allowing less-than-perfect guarding, if it is given to the Guardian right before Shabbat: Bava Metzia 42a
Where the guardian confused ownership of 2 Charges, and both owners claim the object of greater value: Bava Metzia 37b
Is a guardian exempt from liability for negligence if the owner was in his employ [b'alav imo]: Bava Metzia 81a-b
Carrying a burden using a mechanism which is likely to break: Bava Metzia 83a
Unavoidable Damage and Death of the Guarded Item - Oness
Damage which is unavoidable, but the Guardian was careless and the "unavoidable" damage resulted: Bava Metzia 36b, 42a
Responsibility for death of an animal in one's care, where the animal shouldn't have been in that place, vs. the point that the Angel of Death would have taken it anywhere: Bava Metzia 36b
Where the animal is stolen and it dies in the home of the thief: Bava Metzia 36b
Where the animal dies after returning to its master's home: Bava Metzia 36b
If one gave an animal to five guardians, and one of them was careless, in a situation where the other four would [not] have been sufficient to guard it under standard conditions: Bava Kama 10a
If one gives an ox to someone to guard, it murders someone and becomes a shor haniskal and then the guardian returns it to the owner - has the guardian fulfilled the responsibility of returning it?: Ketuvot 34a
