Carrier - Law Dictionary Search Results
Breaking bulk
Administrator, Bangalore City Corporation, AIR 1990 SC 47: (1989) 4 SCC 640. Larceny by a bailee, esp. a carrier, who opens containers, removes item from them, and converts the items to personal use; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th
VerbarNoyade
once a method of execution practiced at Nantes in France during the Reign of Terror by Jean Baptiste Carrier
Conversion and detinue
the right of another, whereby that other is deprived of the use and possession of it. If a carrier or other bailee wrongfully and mistakenly delivers the chattel to the wrong person or refuses to deliver it
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Charter-party
pay freight agreed. In the absence of a charter-party or bill of lading, the ship-owner becomes a common carrier and remains liable as such, see Hill v. Scott, 1895 (2) QB 713. See Leggett or Scrutton on
Carriage by Air Act (English)
a code of the law of carriage of passengers, luggage and goods consigned, and the liabilities of the carrier and rights and liabilities of passengers and consignors. The Act is to come into force by Order in
Forwarding merchant
waggons by which they are transported, and no interest in the freight, and not being deemed a common carrier, but a mere warehouseman and agent, Story on Bailments, 509.
Bill of Lading
Bill of Lading, a memorandum signed by masters of ships, in their capacity of carriers, acknowledging the receipt of merchants' goods, of which there are usually three parts-one kept by the consignor, one
Bailment
done about them, for reward to be paid to the bailee. For the history of the liability of carriers, see Nugent v. Smith, (1876) 1 CPD 423, and for an explanation of the duty of private bailees
Actually delivered
purchaser, it does not contemplate mere symbolical or national delivery e.g. by entrusting the goods to a common carrier, or even delivery of documents of title like railway receipts, Shree Bajarang Jute Mills Ltd v. State of
Postman
A post or courier a letter carrier
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