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Contracting carrier, means a person who as a principal makes an agreement for carriage governed by the Warsaw Convention with a passenger or consignor or with a person acting on his hehalf, Carriage by Air (Supplementary Provisions) Act, 1962, Sch., Pt. 1, Art. 1(b) (UK) Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. (2), para 1539, p. 763....
Carrier
Carrier, in its general sense, a person who undertakes to transport the goods of other persons from one place to another for hire. It is not, however, every person who undertakes to carry goods for hire that is deemed a common carrier.A carrier of passengers is liable only for negligence and not as an insurer, Redhead v. Midland R. Co., (1869) LR 4 QB 379.To bring a person within the description of a common carrier, he must exercise it as a public employment; he must undertake to carry goods for persons generally; and he must hold himself out as ready to transport goods for hire, as a business, not as a casual occupation, pro hac vice.The two obligations of a common carrier of goods are (1) to carry for everybody, and (2) to answer for all things carried as an insurer, unless lost or injured by the act of God or the King's enemies.The second obligation, that of an insurer, is restricted by the (English) Carriers Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Wm. 4, c. 68), which protects carriers from liabi...
Common carrier
Common carrier, the question in any particular case whether the carrier was a common carrier or a private carrier has therefore to be decided on the ascertainment of what he publicly professes. This profession, it need hardly be mentioned, may be by public notice or by actual indiscriminate carrying of goods. It is also clear that the profession to carry goods indiscriminately may be limited to particular goods or to particular routes or even as to two or more specified points, River Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. v. Shyam Sunder Tea Co. Ltd., AIR 1962 SC 1276 (1279): (1962) 2 SCR 802. [Carriers Act, 1865, ss. 2 and 3]Is not by his description of his own business, al-though if may be inferred from the character of that business that he is a common carrier, Upston v. Slark, (1827) 2 C&P 598.Whether or not a person is a common carrier is in every case a question of fact, Belfast Ropework Co. Ltd. v. Bushell, (1918) 1 KB 210 (215) per Bailhache, J.'Common carrier' denotes a person, other than ...
carrier
carrier 1 : an individual or entity engaged in transporting passengers or goods for hire by land, water, or air ;specif : common carrier 2 : an insurer that assumes the risks of a policy that it issues to a policyholder ...
common carrier
common carrier : a business or agency that is available to the public for transportation of persons, goods, or messages compare contract carrier ...
contract carrier
contract carrier : a transport line that carries persons or property under contract to one or a limited number of shippers compare common carrier ...
mail carrier
A person who delivers the mail also called a letter carrier A male mail carrier is also called a mailman...
Contracting out of a statute
Contracting out of a statute. In accordance with the maxim, Quilibet potest [or Cuilibet licet] renunciare juri pro se introducto, persons for whose benefit a statute has been passed may contract with others in such a manner as to deprive themselves of the benefit of the statute, as, for instance, the benefit of the Employers Liability Act, 1880; see Griffiths v. Earl of Dudley, (1882) 9 QBD 357.Certain Acts prohibit 'contracting out' or impose limitations. For example, by s. 1 (3) of the Workmens Compensation Act, 1925, contracting out of the Act is allowed upon the certificate of the Registrar of Friendly Societies that a proposed scheme of compensation is not less favourable to the workmen than the scheme of compensation provided by the Act. See also s. 45 of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1923; and s. 146 (12) of the (English) Law of Property Act,1925, which provides for relief against the forfeiture of a lease; and also ss. 95 and 96 as to mortgages which exclude contracting out, ...
Contraction
The act or process of contracting shortening or shrinking the state of being contracted as contraction of the heart of the pupil of the eye or of a tendon the contraction produced by cold...
carrier's lien
carrier's lien see lien ...
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