Transportation

The removal of goods or persons from one place to another, by a carrier.

See Railroad Co. v. Pratt, 22 Wall. 133, 22 In Ed. 827; Interstate Commerce Comin v. Brimson, 154 U. S. 447, 14 Sup. Ct 1125, 38 In Ed. 1047; Gloucester Ferry Co. v. Pennsylvania, 114 U. S. 196, 5 Sup. Ct. 826, 29 L. Ed. 158.

In criminal law. A species of punishment consisting in removing the criminal from his own country to another, (usually a penal colony,) there to remain in exile for a prescribed period.

Fong Yue Ting v. U. S., 149 U. S. 698, 13 Sup. Ct 1016, 37 L. Ed. 905.