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demurrage charge

Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court

Definitions from Case Law

From 271 U.S. 259 - Turner Dennis Lowry Lumber Co v. Chicago M & St Paul Ry Co · 1926Most cited · 205 citing opinions

The demurrage charge is, however, a tariff provision and not a penal law, and thus, the tariff duly filed charges the shipper with the requisite notice.

How often courts cite the case defining “demurrage charge”

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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “demurrage charge” — 205 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.