Freight

Freight is properly the price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier, at sea, from port to port. But the term is also used to denote the hire paid for the carriage of goods on land from place to place, (usually by 3 railroad company, not wn express company.) or on inland streams or lakes, The name is also applied to the goods or merchandise transported by any of the above means. Property carried is called “freight;” the reward, if any, to be paid for its carriage is called “freightage;” the person who delivers the freight to the carrier is called the “consignor;” «and the person to whorn it is to be delivered is called the “consignee.”

Civil Code Cal. § 2110; Civil Code Dak. § 1220.

The term “freight” has several different meanings, as the price to be paid for the carriage of goods, or for the hire of a vessel under a charter party or otherwise; and sometimes it designates goods carried, as “a freight of lime,” or the like. But, as a subject of insurance, it is used in one of the two former senses.

10 Gray, 10%.

The sum agreed on for the hire of a ship, ent.rely orin part, for the carriage of goods from one port to another.

18 East, 200.

All rewards or compensation paid for the use of ships.

1 Pet Adm. 206.

Freight is a compensation received for the transportation of goudsand merchandise from port to port; and is never claimable by the owner of the vessel] until the voyage has been performed and terminated. 7 Gill & J. 300. “Dead freight” is money payable by a per son who has chartered a ship and only partly londed her, in respect of the loss of freight caused to the ship-owner by the deficiency of eargo. L. R. 2 H. L. Se. 128. voyage is broken up by vis major, and no freight earned, no wages, co nomine, are due.