The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 51F. Hunt, 1864 - Commerce |
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... carriers ... 119 , 207 Law for measuring tonnage of ships , & c . , official copy ... 323 440 Law for preventing collision on the water ... 327 313 Law , internal revenue , alphabetical arrangement ... 215 Great Britain and Ireland ...
... carriers ... 119 , 207 Law for measuring tonnage of ships , & c . , official copy ... 323 440 Law for preventing collision on the water ... 327 313 Law , internal revenue , alphabetical arrangement ... 215 Great Britain and Ireland ...
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... carrier or a com- mon carrier . A private carrier is one who carries for others once , or sometimes , but who does not pursue the business of carrying as his usual and professed occupation . The contract between him and the owner of the ...
... carrier or a com- mon carrier . A private carrier is one who carries for others once , or sometimes , but who does not pursue the business of carrying as his usual and professed occupation . The contract between him and the owner of the ...
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... carrier , he is not liable . The owner must show the want of care or diligence on the part of the private carrier , to make him liable ; but slight evidence tending that way would suffice to throw upon him the burden of accounting ...
... carrier , he is not liable . The owner must show the want of care or diligence on the part of the private carrier , to make him liable ; but slight evidence tending that way would suffice to throw upon him the burden of accounting ...
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... carrier " who undertakes , for hire , to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him from place to place " ; or , as we should prefer to say , from some known and definite place or places to other known and definite place or ...
... carrier " who undertakes , for hire , to transport the goods of such as choose to employ him from place to place " ; or , as we should prefer to say , from some known and definite place or places to other known and definite place or ...
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... carriers of goods by taking up that business . A steamboat usually employed as a carrier may do something else , as tow a vessel out of a harbor , or the like ; and the character of common carrier does not attach to this especial ...
... carriers of goods by taking up that business . A steamboat usually employed as a carrier may do something else , as tow a vessel out of a harbor , or the like ; and the character of common carrier does not attach to this especial ...
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Page 67 - To exercise by its board of directors, or duly authorized officers or agents, subject to law, all such incidental powers as shall be necessary to carry on the business of banking; by discounting and negotiating promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange, and other evidences of debt...
Page 83 - ... on real estate, or of judgments or decrees in its favor; all deposits of money, bullion, or other valuable thing for its use, or for the use of any of its shareholders or creditors; and all payments of money to either, made after the commission of an act of insolvency, or in contemplation thereof...
Page 79 - Nothing herein shall be construed to exempt the real property of associations from either State, county or municipal taxes, to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed...
Page 325 - ... points of division, and also at the upper and lower points of the depth extending each measurement to the average thickness of that part of the ceiling which is between the points of measurement...
Page 329 - Every steamship, when approaching another ship so as to involve risk of collision, shall slacken her speed, or if necessary stop and reverse ; and every steamship shall, when in a fog, go at a moderate speed.
Page 86 - First. A summary of the state and condition of every association from which reports have been received the preceding year, at the several dates to which such reports refer, with an abstract of the whole amount of banking capital returned by them, of the whole amount of their debts and liabilities, the amount of circulating notes outstanding, and the total amount of means and resources, specifying the amount of lawful money held by them at the times of their several returns, and such other information...
Page 325 - ... area (except the first and last) by two ; add these products together, and to the sum add the first and last if they yield anything; multiply the quantity thus obtained by one-third of the common interval between the areas, and the product will be the cubical contents of the space under the tonnage deck...
Page 329 - When two steam vessels are crossing, so as to involve risk of collision, the vessel which has the other on her own starboard side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Page 329 - A vessel which, is closehauled on the port tack shall keep out of the way of a vessel which is closehauled on the starboard tack. (c) When both are running free, with the wind on different sides, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.
Page 229 - ... to have any exclusive right or title to the making or preparing the same, or which are prepared, uttered, vended, or exposed for sale under any letters patent, or...