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Picture
566. Where framed pictures are sent by rail, the frames as well as the pictures are within the Carriers Act [Henderson v. London and N.W. Ry. Co., (1870) LR 5 Ex. 90]; and see CARRIER. A picture
Way-bill
of passengers who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land.
Post office
respect of letters, telegraphs and wireless telegraphy (q.v.) and telephones (q.v.), it carries on the business of a carrier of parcels, a savings bank, life assurance, the transmission of money by postal orders and money orders, and
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Res perit suo domino
in transit arises from the act of God, the loss falls upon the owner and not upon the carrier.
Risk Note
(1887) 12 App Cas 218, to the effect that by offering alternative rates-a higher rate with the ordinary carrier's liability, and a lower rate with exemption from liability-a company may exempt themselves from all liability except for
Sale of Goods Act, 1893
of short or excessive quantity, the rules as to delivery by instalments and as to delivery to a carrier, the right of the buyer to examine goods, and the liability of the buyer for not taking delivery.
Ship
R. v. Anderson, LR 1 CCR 161. The liability of shipowners (who are liable at common law, if carriers, as insurers of goods) is limited by s. 503 of the Merchant Shipping Act, where there has been
Sunday
Sunday Observance Acts, 1625, 1677, 1780, 1833, as amended, inter alia prohibit extra-parochial sports and exercise of a carrier's trade on Sunday. The sale of liquors on Sundays is much restricted: see (English) Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910,
Terminal charges
goods, and for delivery and collection and any other services incidental to the duty or business of a carrier, where such services are or any of them is performed by the company'; and the Railway and Canal
Tort
on tort was been held to include--detinue [Bryant v. Herbert, (1877) 3 CPD 389]; an action against a carrier for loss of goods by refusal to stop in transitu [Pontifex v. Mid. Ry. Co., (1877) 3 QBD
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