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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A writing in which are set down the names of passengers who are carried in a public conveyance, or the description of goods sent with a common carrier by land. When the goods are carried by water, the instrument is called a "bill of lading," and this term is now commonly applied to carriage by land as well.