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Fire
these covenants an appropriate saving or exception. See also INSURANCE. As to fires caused by sparks, etc., from railway engines, see the (English) Railway Fires Act, 1905, and the Railway Fires Act (1905) Amendment Act, 1923.
Limited liability
liability being apt to prevent persons from engaging in business as partners, the statutes authorizing the construction of railways, etc., have always limited the liability of each shareholder to the amount of the shares held by him.
Lloyd's bonds
Lloyd's bonds. Instruments under the seal of a railway company, admitting the indebtedness of the company to a specified amount to the obligee, with a covenant to
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Locomotives. I
1930, 1931, 1934, etc. See Stone's Justices;' Manual, and consult, generally, Pratt and Mackenzie's Law of Highways. II. Railway Engines.--Locomotive engines on railways are regulated by ss. 114-116 of the (English) Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845 (8
Officiating
permanently or substantively, while still retaining his lien on his substantive post, Arun Kumar Chatterjee v. South Eastern Railway, AIR 1985 SC 482 (485): (1985) 2 SCC 451. (1983) 3 SCR 18. (Railway Establishment Manual, R. 312)
Packed parcels
immediate consignor (a carrier), who unites them into one for his own profit at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway company would have been paid more for the carriage of
Passenger
Passenger, 'passenger' any person on a railway in any description or class of traveling train or carriage on payment of his fare, whether at full
Ticket
ride on a train, claim or purchase, etc. Webster's Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 25A. For a railway passenger not to produce a railway ticket on request by an officer or servant of a railway company,
Undue preference
Undue preference, the improper preferring of one customer over another by a railway or canal com-pany, prohibited by the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1854 (17 & 18 Vict. c.
Chamber of Agriculture, Chamber of Commerce
agriculture or trade are treated of. Chambers of such kind are recognized by s. 7(1)(b) of the (English) Railway and Canal Traffic Act, 1888 (51 & 52 Vict. c. 25), as having a locus standi before the
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