Cargo
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[Fr. cargaison; Span, cargazon.^ In mercantile law. The load or lading of a vessel; goods and merchandize put on board a ship to be carried, (m^ces in navi vehendas) to a certain port. This term is considered, both in English and American law, as applying to goods only, and does not include live animals, or persons. 4 Pick. B. 429. 2 Gill dt Johns. 136. 7 Man, d- Gr. 744, 736, note. See 9 Metcalf, 364.