Skip to content

Carrier - Law Dictionary Search Results

Research workspace

Save terms and build your research trail

A free trial unlocks notes, tags, search history, and the full AI Studio desk for judgment research.

Porterage

The work of a porter the occupation of a carrier or of a doorkeeper

bailee

an individual or entity (as a business organization) having possession of another's personal property under a bailment NOTE: Carriers and warehouses are two examples of bailees. A bailee's liability for loss or damage to property is determined

except

to take or leave out (as from insurance coverage or a deed) : exclude [specifically ed the air carriers and unions from the provisions "M. A. Kelly"] vi : object ;esp : to file a bill of

Keep your definitions linked to case research

joint rate

joint rate : a single rate charged by two or more carriers to transport a shipment of goods over a route

Contract, freedom of

contract, as, e.g., by invalidating contracts, as, e.g., by invalidat-ing contracts exempting railway companies from their liabilities as carriers of goods by the 7th s. of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854, or depriving a tenant

Gun

a game licence; (5) gunsmiths or their servants in the course of trade or testing, and (6) common carriers carrying guns as such. See FIREARMS; STREET OFFENCES.

Lien

the person claiming the lien was obliged by law to enter into the contract for service, e.g., common carriers, innkeepers, and a shipmaster's lien for freight. The Civil Law derived its own lines, whether they were pledges

Naut'

Naut' [Lat.], sailors; carriers by water.

Passengers

5, c. 9). Consult Abbott on Shipping and Temperley's Merchant Shipping Acts. As to passengers by land, see CARRIERS; NEGLIGENCE; RAILWAYS. See also the London Hackney Carriages Act, 1843, s. 2, for definition of passenger for the

Protest

excess can be recovered [see Baxendale v. London and South Western Ry. Co., (1866) LR 1 Exch 137; CARRIERS].

  • Last »

Try the research workspace - 7 days free


AI Briefs · Semantic Search · Save & annotate judgments

Start your 7-day free trial