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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

The amount due a carrier for the transportation of goods or live stock.

Angell, Carr. i 391.

Sometimes applied in a loose sense to the goods carried. In Maritime Law. The sum agreed on for the hire of a ship, entirely or in part, for the carriage of goods from one port to another.

13 East, 300.

All rewards or compensation paid for the use of ships.

1 Pet. (N. Y.) 346; 3 Johns. (N. Y.) 335; 3 Pardessus, note 705. '