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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...
Maxicab
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)]...
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....
Solicitation
Solicitation. It is an indictable offence to solicit and incite another to commit a felony, although no felony be in fact committed, R. v. Higgins (1801) 2 East, 5.As to arrest by a constable, on view, of a prostitute 'loitering in any thorough fare or public place for the purpose of prostitution or solicitation to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passengers,' see (English) Metropolitan Police Act 1839, s. 54, and s. 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, where this street offence is described as 'loitering and importuning passengers for the purpose of prostitution.'...
Stage carriage
Stage carriage, means a motor vehicle constructed or adapted to carry more than six passengers excluding the driver for hire or reward to separate fares paid by or for individual passengers, either for the whole journey or for stages of the journey. [Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (59 of 1988), s. 2 (40)]...
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....
Untoward incident
Untoward incident, means:(1)(i) The commission of a terrorist act within the meaning of sub-s. (1) of s. 3 of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987 (28 of 1987); or(ii) the making of a violent attack or the commission of robbery or dacoity; or(iii) the indulging in rioting, shoot-out or arson,by any person in or any train carrying passengers, or in a waiting hall, cloakroom or reservation or booking office or on any platform or in any other place within the precincts of a railway station; or(2) the accidental falling of any passenger from a train carrying passengers. [Railways Act, 1989 (24 of 1989), s. 123(c)]...
Way
Way [fr. w'g, Sax.; weigh, Dut.; vig or wig, M. Goth.], road made for passengers.1. A passage or pat 2. A right to travel over another's property, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1587.There are three kinds of ways:-1st, a footway (iter); 2nd, a footway and horseway (actus, vulgarly called packe and prime way; 3rd, via or aditus, which contains the other two, and also a cartway, etc.; and this is two-fold, viz., regia via, the king's highway for all men, and communis strata, belonging to a city or town or between neighbours and neighbours. This is called in our books chimin, Co. Litt. 56 a.All ways are divided into highways and private ways. A right of way strictly means a private way, i.e. a privilege which an individual or a particular description of persons may have of going over another's ground. Such a right is an incorporeal hereditament.A highway is a public passage for the sovereign and all his subjects, and it is commonly called the king's public highway; and the turnpike ...
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....
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