Vehicle
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
As used in the act of July 18, 1866, to prevent smuggling, includes every description of carriage, wagon, engine, ear, sleigh, -sled, sledge, hurdle, cart, and other artificial contrivance, used or capable of being used as a means or auxiliary of transportation on land.
Act of congress of July 18, 1866, § 1, 14 Stat, at L. 178.
A ferry-boat is not a vehicle, within a statute authorizing a common council to levy specific taxes on carriages fnd othiT vehicles used for passengers for hire.
Duckwall V
City of New Albany, 26 Ind. 283.