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Maxicab, means any motor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than six passengers but not more than twelve passengers, excluding the driver, for hire or reward. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (22)]...
Ferry
Ferry, the right to carry persons and their goods in boats across a river, and to take toll for such carriage. It is a franchise, and can only be created by a grant from the Crown, prescription which presumes such a grant, or Act of Parliament; see Simpson v. Att.-Gen., 1904 AC 490. The owner if he lose his traffic by the competition of a railway bridge can get no compensation under the Lands Clauses Act, Hopkins v. Great Northern Railway Co., (1877) 2 QBD 224. See also Cowes Urban District Council v. Southampton, etc., Co., (1905) 2 KB 287; Hammerton v. Dysart (Earl), 1916 AC 57; General Estates Co. v. Beaver, (1914) 3 KB 918. As to the duties of common ferrymen, see 1 Shower, 140. As to the acquisition of ferries by local authorities, see the (English) Ferries (Acquisition by Local Authorities) Act, 1919.It includes a bridge of boats, pontoons or rafts, a swing bridge, a fly-bridge and a temporary bridge and the approaches to, and landing places of, a ferry. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 o...
Fare
Fare, a voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by land or by water.Railway fares must be published at stations, by the (English) Regulation of Railways Act, 1868 (31 & 32 Vict. c. 119), s. 16. Travelling without prepayment and with intent to avoid payment is punishable by fine up to 40s., and on second or subsequent offence either by fine up to 20l. or in the discretion of the Court by imprisonment up to one month on summary conviction, by the Regulation of Railways Act, 1889, superseding but not repealing s. 103 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 20).Tramway fares must be published inside and outside each of the carriages used, and avoiding payment of them is punishable by fine up to 40s. with liability to arrest.As to fares on public service vehicles, see (English) Traffic Acts, 1930, s. 72, and 1934, s. 40.Means the charge levied for the carriage of passengers. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (14)]Means the ...
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...
Carriage by Air Act (English)
Carriage by Air Act (English), 1932 (22 & 23 Geo. 5, Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules relating to International Carriage by Air. The rules constitute 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 Council....
Carriage
Carriage, includes any carriage, wagon, cart, truck, vehicle or other means of conveying goods or passengers by land in whatever manner the same maybe propelled. [Explosives Act, 1884 (4 of 1884), s. 4 (b)]Means the carriage of passengers or goods by a railway administration. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 2 (2)...
Naulage
Naulage [fr. naulum, Lat.], the freight of passengers in a ship, Johns.; Webster.Naulage, means 'passage money'. The fore a for passengers or goods traveling by ship, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1050....
Transport Vehicle
Transport Vehicle, means a 'public service vehicle' and a 'public service vehicle', means any motor vehicle either used or adopted motor vehicle for carrying passengers for hire or reward which determines the category of the motor vehicle whether it is adopted for that purpose or not. It must follow that even if a motor vehicle is occasionally used for carrying passengers for hire or reward, it must be regarded when so used as a public service vehicle and therefore a transport vehicle, State of Mysore v. Syed Ibrahim, AIR 1967 SC 1424: (1967) 2 SCWR 18....
Cargo and personal luggage
Cargo and personal luggage, the term 'cargo' when it occurs in the notification of the Reserve Bank is that it is used as contra-distinguished from personal luggage in the law relating to the carriage of goods. The latter has been defined as whatever a passenger takes with him for his personal use or convenience, either with reference to his immediate necessities or for his personal needs at the end of his journey, State of Maharashtra v. Mayer Hans George, (1965) 1 SCR 123: AIR 1965 SC 722 (727). [Foreign Excahnge Regulation Act (7 of 1947), s. 8(1)]...
Observation car
A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route a car open or with glass sides or with a kind of open balcony at the rear...
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