Cargo
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
In martime law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel. 1 Mason (U. S.) 142. "Not the property on board belonging exclusively to the shipowner, but all the property constituting the ship's lading; all the property on which freight and profits were to accrue.
4 Mason (U. S.) 264.
The products of a, whaling voyage are "cargo," but the implements used in whaling are not.
11 Pick. (Mass.) 230.
As used in policies of marine insurance, the term has a restricted meaning, derived from usage, which does not include deck load or live stock.
4 Pick. (Mass.) 433; 2 Gill & J. (Md.) 136.
The term is usually applied to goods only, but in a more extensive and less technical sense it includes persons.
See 7 Man. & G. 729, 744.