One of the first rights denied the Negro by these successful reactionaries was the unrestricted use of common carriers.
Merchants Bank[7] the court speaking through Justice Nelson took high ground in the defence of the free and unrestricted use of common carriers, a right frequently denied the Negroes after the Civil War.
The same law that governs other common carriers, governs these corporations.
They reason that because they are public highways, and the companies owning them are common carriers, taxes may be legally levied and collected for the exclusive use of these companies.
I have before indicated what was the purpose of the bill introduced in the Legislature of 1880, to prevent discrimination by common carriers.
An act to provide for liens for laborers, common carriers, and other persons on personal property.
Prior to this time the English common law, while requiring reasonableness of charges by common carriers, by no means insured that such charges should be stable and uniform.
Transportation, as a service, is the commodity produced by common carriers.
Economic peace, not warfare, should be encouraged by the services of common carriers.
The liability ofcommon carriers is very important to all who travel or send merchandise.
What rules of liability apply to common carriers, and how can they be modified?
In our last lecture was mentioned the carriage of merchandise by common carriers.
These rules were applied to common carriers by water, and it may now be taken to be the general rule that shipowners who carry goods by sea are by the English law subject to the liabilities of common carriers.
The rules of the common or ancient customary law of England with regard to the carriage of goods were no doubt first considered by the courts and established with regard to the carriage of goods by common carriers on land.
Bernard states the liability as applicable to all bailees for reward, exercising a public employment, and mentions common hoymen and masters of ships alongside of, not as embraced under, common carriers.
It will be noticed, with reference to what follows, that Popham does not speak of common carriers, but of carriers.
There is no writ in the Register alleging any special obligation of common carriers by the custom of the realm.
While the reason for this exceptional liability of a common carrier has largely passed away by the practical extermination of highway robbers and pirates, the exceptional liability of common carriers remains as a part of the law.
This is a very salutary act, since it was the common custom of carriers to place many provisions in their bills of lading by which they endeavored to evade their liability as common carriers.
Any case in which one party employs another to carry goods from one place to another for compensation is included in this class of bailments, and is discussed more at length in the chapter on Common Carriers.
The most common example of this class of bailments is that of common carriers.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common carriers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
