General ship

Where a ship is not chartered wholly to one person, but the owner offers her generally to carry the goods of ali comers, or where, if chartered to one person, he offers her to several subfreighters for the conveyance of their goods, she is calied a "general" ship, as opposed to a "chartered" one. Brown. A vessel in which the master or owners engage separately with a number of persons unconnected with each other to convey their respective goods to the place of the ship's destination.

Ward v. Green, 6 Co.w. (N. Y) 173, 16 Am. Dec. 437.