A Treatise on the Law Affecting Railway Companies as Carriers of Goods and Live Stock |
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A Treatise on the Law Affecting Railway Companies as Carriers of Goods and ... Joseph Haworth Redman No preview available - 2017 |
A Treatise on the Law Affecting Railway Companies as Carriers of Goods and ... Joseph Haworth Redman No preview available - 2016 |
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32 Vict act of parliament action aforesaid agent amount animals apply Baxendale bound Bristol and Exeter canal company Canal Traffic Act carriage carried for hire cattle claim coal Commis commissioners common carriers common law company's servants condition consignee consignor conveyance conveyed Court or judge declared delay delivered delivery duty enacted entitled Exeter Rail held Junction Rail jury Lancashire Lancashire and Yorkshire liable lien London and North loss or injury luggage mail contractors Midland Rail Monmouthshire negligence North Western Rail Northern Rail notice ordinary owner packed paid pany parcel or package particular parties passenger person plaintiff Railway and Canal railway company railway or canal rate of charge receipt receive recover refused respect riage risk Scotland sect sender sioners special act special contract Staffordshire stage coach proprietor station steam vessels supra tion tolls transit trucks undue preference unless unloading unreasonable warehouse Yorkshire Rail
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Page 7 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 17 - ... no such company shall make or give any undue or unreasonable preference or advantage to or in favour of any particular person or company, or any particular description of traffic, in any respect whatsoever...
Page 171 - ... notwithstanding any notice, condition, or declaration made and given by such company contrary thereto, or in anywise limiting such liability; every such notice, condition, or declaration being hereby declared to be null and void: Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the said companies from making such conditions with respect to the receiving, forwarding, and delivering of any of the said animals, articles, goods, or things, as shall be adjudged by the Court...
Page 164 - ... silks in a manufactured or unmanufactured state, and whether wrought up or not wrought up with other materials...
Page 18 - ... communication, or which have the terminus station or wharf of the one near the terminus station or wharf of the other, shall afford all due and reasonable facilities for receiving and forwarding by one of such railways or canals...
Page 178 - Subject as hereinafter mentioned, the said facilities to be so afforded are hereby declared to and shall include the due and reasonable receiving, forwarding, and delivering by every railway company and canal company, and railway and canal company, at the request of any otter such company, of through traffic to and from the railway or canal of any other such company at through rates, tolls, or fares (in this act referred to as through rates).
Page 168 - Every railway company, canal company, and railway and canal company, shall, according to their respective powers, afford all reasonable facilities for the receiving and forwarding and delivering of traffic...
Page 187 - ... post ; and in proving such service it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter containing the notice was properly addressed and put into the post office.
Page 18 - ... by the other, without any unreasonable delay, and without any such preference or advantage or prejudice or disadvantage, as aforesaid, and...
Page 48 - ... proprietor or other common carrier, or to his, her or their book-keeper, coachman or other servant, for the purpose of being carried or of accompanying the person of any passenger as aforesaid, the value and nature of such article or articles or property shall have been declared by the person or persons sending or delivering the same, and such increased charge as hereinafter mentioned, or an engagement to pay the same, be accepted by the person receiving such parcel or package.