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A construction worker whose main function is to carry construction materials in a hod1...
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...
carrier's lien
carrier's lien see lien ...
Contracting carrier
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....
Railway
Railway. A road owned by a private person or public company on which carriages run over iron rails; if the road is a public highway, that part of it on which the rails are laid is called a tramway. Every railway in this country (except a few private railways running through land owned by the owner of the railway) is constructed and managed (1) under a local and personal Act of Parliament; and (2) under the Companies Clauses, Lands Clauses, and Railways Clauses Consolidation Acts; and (3) under the general Acts relating to railways. The (English) Railway Act, 1921, provides for the reorganization of almost all the railways in England.Railway Companies as Carriers, The powers of railway companies as carriers are given by the 86th section of the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, and controlled by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Acts of 1854, 1873, and 1888. The (English) Act of 1845, s. 86, enacts that:-It shall be lawful for the company [authorized (see s. 3) by the speci...
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