Freight
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. '