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Contracting carrier
Matched in: Term Contracting carrier
Carrier
Matched in: Term Carrier
Hire
head of hire of labour and services. The rights, duties, and obligations of the parties resulting from the contract of bailment for hire may be thus stated:- (I.) Hire of things. The letting to hire implies an … to contracts of this sort entered into by private persons, who do not exercise the business of common carriers, there does not seem to be any material distinction varying the rights, obligations, and duties of the parties
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Passenger
is not a passenger, AIR 1988 Pat 130 (132). Passenger, is a person whom a common carrier has contracted to carry from one place to another, Sundari v. Union of India, AIR 1984 All 277. Means a
Contract, freedom of
Contract, freedom of. Modern legislation has fre-quently interfered with freedom of contract, as, e.g., by invalidating contracts, as, e.g., … 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
Risk Note
Risk Note, the name sometimes given to the special contract, sanctioned by s. 7 of the Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c. 31), … (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
Limited liability
Limited liability. At Common Law every person is liable, upon his contracts, up to the whole amount of his estate, and every partner is so liable upon all the contracts … Shipping (Liability of Shipowners and Others) Act, 1900 (63 & 64 Vict. c. 32); and that of common carriers (including railway companies by the (English) Carriers Act, 1830 (11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4, c. 68),
Time Charter-party
generally calculated at a monthly rate on the tonnage of the ship, while a voyage charter is a contract to carry specified goods on a defined voyage on a remuneration or freight usually calculated according to the … by the law which relates to the hiring of chattels, and not by reference to the liabilities of carriers and shippers'. According to Scrutton on Charter-parties, fall into three main categories: (i) charters by demise, (ii) time-charters
Bailment
Bailment [fr. bailler, Fr., to deliver], a compendious expression to signify a contract resulting from delivery; perhaps best defined as a 'delivery of a thing in trust for some special object … 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
Freight
until the whole cargo be ready for delivery, or has been delivered to the consignee, according to the contract for its conveyance. 1. Goods transported by water, land or air 2. Compensation paid to carrier for transporting
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