Forwarding Merchant
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A person who receives and forwards goods, taking upon himself the expenses of transportation, for which he receives a compensation from the owners, but who has no concern in the vessels or wagons by which they are transported, and no interest in the freight. Such a one is not deemed a common carrier, but a mere warehouseman or agent.
12 Johns. (N. Y.) 232; 7 Cow. (N. Y.) 497.
He is required to use only ordinary diligence in sending the property by responsible persons.
2 Cow. (N. Y.) 693.
See Storyi Bailm. FOSSA (Lat.) In English law. A ditch full of water, where formerly women who had committed a felony were drowned; the grave.
Cowell.