A Treatise on the Law of Bailments |
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Common terms and phrases
19 Wend adjudged agent agreement answerable assumpsit bailee bailment bailor Barb bill of lading borrower bound Campb carriage chattels chose in action Code of Louisiana common carrier common law Comst consignee counselor at law court Cowen creditor custody damages debt debtor defendant delivered delivery demand Denio depositary deposited diligence duty equity evidence execution freight guest held Hill hire hirer horse implied injury innkeeper interest intrusted John Jones on Bailm jury Justice Kent's Comm labor and services liable lien loan loss mandatary mandate master mortgage neglect negligence notice ordinary owner party passengers pawnee pawnor payment perty plaintiff pledge possession principle purchaser Raym reasonable received recover render responsible rule sell servant ship Sir William Jones special contract special property statute stipulated Story on Bailm thing bailed third person tion trover trust undertaking vessel warehouse-man wharfinger
Popular passages
Page 33 - Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world ; all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power...
Page 203 - ... shall be deemed to be the true owner thereof, so far as to give validity to any contract made by such agent with any other person, for the sale or disposition of the whole or any part of such merchandise...
Page 506 - Every such corporation shall start and run their cars for the transportation of passengers and property at regular times, to be fixed by public notice, and shall furnish sufficient accommodation for the transportation of all such passengers and property as shall within a reasonable time previous thereto offer or be offered for transportation...
Page 97 - But, secondly, it is objected, that there is no consideration to ground this promise upon, and therefore the undertaking is but nudum pactum. But to this I answer, that the owner's trusting him with the goods is a sufficient consideration to oblige him to a careful management.
Page 29 - ... destination. If they should be lost or injured by the grossest negligence of the carrier or his servants, or stolen by them, or by thieves in collusion with them, the owner would be unable to prove either of these causes of loss. His witnesses must be the carrier's servants ; and they, knowing that they could not be contradicted, would excuse their masters and themselves.
Page 115 - If one man who is intrusted with the goods of another put them into the hands of a third person, contrary to orders, it is a conversion.
Page 612 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of ike United States of America in Congress assembled...
Page 612 - An act to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the better security of the lives of passengers on board of vessels propelled in whole or in part by steam...
Page 494 - A ship trading from one port to another has not the means of carrying the goods on land, and, according to the established course of trade, a delivery on the usual wharf is such a delivery as will discharge the carrier.
Page 620 - ... shall lade the same as freight or baggage on any vessel, without, at the time of such lading giving to the master, clerk, agent, or owner of such vessel receiving the same, a written notice of the true character and value thereof, and having the same entered on the bill of lading therefor, the master and owner of such vessel shall not be liable as carriers thereof...