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Carriage

A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A Dictionary of Law

A vehicle used for the transportation of persons either for pleasure or business, and drawn by horses or other draught animals over the ordinary streets and highways of the country; not including cars used exclusively upon railroads or street railroads expressly constructed for the use of such curs.

63 Wis. 97, 23 N. W. Rep. 425; 8 Kan. 84; 47 N.Y. 122; 46 N. H. 525; 5Q Dive 76.

The act of carrying, or acontract for transporiation of persons or goods. The contract of carriage is a contract for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages from one place to another.

Civil Code Cal. § 2055; Civil Code Dak. § 1208.