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or CARRACLE. A ship of great burden.

A ship of great burden.

a common carrier by railroad (except a street, suburban, or interurban electric railway which is not operated as a part of a general steam railroad system of transportation).

when the holders of the bills of lading proved the goods had not been delivered to the consignee, the presumption arose that they had been lost by reason of the negligence of the c

one who operates a railroad as a means of carrying for the public—that is to say, a railroad company acting as a common carrier

either horses or men, but rather includes all the equipment of the route, whether horses, wagons, harness, stage stations, fuel, food, stables, in fact everything needed to carry o

In general the burden rests upon the carrier of goods by sea to bring himself within any exception relieving him from the liability which the law otherwise imposes on him. This is

Safe custody is as much the duty of a carrier as conveyance and delivery; and when he is unable to carry the goods forward to their place of destination, from causes which he did n

The carrier cannot be held for goods taken from its custody by valid legal process, provided it gives the owner prompt notice of the suit so that he may have an opportunity to prot

Congress meant by the phrase 'all the carriers involved' those, and those only, who are parties to the pooling of freights and the division of the proceeds.

“carrier subject to liquidation” means a carrier which, on January 14, 1983, was the subject of a proceeding pending under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act or under subchapter IV o

carriers generally controlled through ownership, lease, or otherwise to the extent of controlling traffic policy, even though separate corporate entity may be maintained.

or CARRAOLE. A ship of great burden.

carrus, I. In old English law. A wagon or wain; a fourwheeled vehicle. Carrying: away. The act of removal or asportation which is essential to larceny.

To bear; to convey.

To wear, bear, or carry them upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose of use, or for the purpose of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive actio

In criminal law. The act of removal or asportation, by which the crime of larceny is completed, and which is essential to constitute it. Co.m. v. Adams, 7 Gray (Mass.) 45; Com. v.

The term “carryback” means a net operating loss carryback under section 172 or a carryback of any credit provided by part IV of subchapter A.

A carry-back is an exceptional relief measure in that it permits a departure from the basic annual accounting rule. The carry-back provisions 'were enacted to ameliorate the unduly

The term “carryback year” means the taxable year to which a carryback is carried.

A verdict la said to carry costs when the party for whom the verdict is given becomes entitled to the payment of his costs as incident to such verdict,--Carry on business. To prose

The term “carryforward purpose” means— (A) the purpose of issuing exempt facility bonds described in 1 of the paragraphs of section 142(a), (B) the purpose of issuing qualified mor

See "Asportation."

A verdict or decision "carrying costs" is one entitling the party in whose favor it is made to tax costs thereon.

The petitioner merely kept records and collected interest and dividends from his securities, through managerial attention for his investments. No matter how large the estate or how

In the absence of evidence showing activities coming within the general acceptation of the concept of carrying on a trade or business, it cannot be said as a matter of law that an

For purposes of this subparagraph, the term “carryover rule” means— (I) subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, (II) subparagraphs (C)(ii), (D)(ii), (E)(ii), and (G)(ii) of subsection

The term “carry over submission” means a submission for an advisory review for which a fee was paid in one fiscal year that is submitted for review in the following fiscal year.

To provide funds or credit for its payment for the period agreed upon from the date of purchase. Saltus v. Genin. 16 N. Y. Super. Ct. 280. And see Pickering v. Demerritt, 100 Mass.

“car service” includes (A) the use, control, supply, movement, distribution, exchange, interchange, and return of locomotives, cars, other vehicles, and special types of equipment

the term “cart” means a portable container holding international travel merchandise on an aircraft for exportation.

A charter (g. v.) Any written instrument. In Spanish Law. A letter; a deed; a power of attorney. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tit. 18, lib. 30.

See "Charta de Foresta."

A grant (1303) to certain foreign merchants, in return for custom duties, of freedom to deal wholesale in where they pleased, together with other rights pertaining to speedy justic

An allowance to the tenant of wood sufficient for carts and other instruments of husbandry. 2 Bl. Comm. 35.

In French marine law. A chart. Ord. Mar. liv. 1, tit. 8, arts. 2, 3.

A white card signed at the bottom with a person's name, and soraeitimes sealed, giving another person power to superscribe what conditions he pleases. Applied, generally, in the se

An agreement between two belligerent powers for the delivery of prisoners or deserters, and also a written challenge to a duel. any proposals between hostile powers. She must carry

A vessel commissioned in time of war to exchange the prisoners of any two hostile powers; also to carry any particular proposal from one to another. For this reason, the officer wh

Persons who carry goods and merchandise in carts, either for great or short distances, for hire.

A caricature, often libelous.

A name used commercially to indicate a class of investment securities based upon the conditional sale or hire of railroad cars or locomotives to railroad companies with a reservati

Ancient English records containing documents and legal proceedings — the muniments of title of the great landowners, and other miscellaneous documents. 2 Holdsw. Hist. E. L. 273. S

A place where papers or records are kept.

Lat. [L. Fr. carue, charue.] In old English law. A plough. More commonly written caruca, (q. v.) Spelman. Caruagium; caruage or carvage. Bract. fol. 37. See Carucage.

A plough.

A taxation of land by the caruca or carue. The caruca was as much land as a man could cultivate in a year and a day with a single plough (caruca). Carucage, earugage, or carnage wa

In old English law. A kind of tax or tribute anciently imposed upon every plow, (carwe or plow-lind,) for the D public service. Spelman.

A plow.

Lat. [from caruca, a plough.] In old English law. A ploughman. Reg. Orig. 190.

A certain quantity of land, used as the basis for taxation. As much, land as may be tilled by a single plough in a year and a' day. Skene de Verb. Sign. A team of cattle; a cartloa

One who held lands in carvage or plow-tenure. Cowell.

A carve of land; plow-land. Britt c. 84.

The name as carucage, (q. v.) Cowell.

To segregate; to cut out, as a smaller estate or parcel from a larger.

The term "CARVM" means the Commissioners' Annuities Reserve Valuation Method prescribed by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners which is applicable to the

Case.

Capias ad satisfaciendum; which see.

Lat. [from casa, q. v.] The land held by a vassal or tenant; his holding or tenement, (territorium vassalli, tenementum.) Spelman. The same as casata, (q. v.)

or CASSATA. In old European law. A house with land sufficient for the support of one family. Otherwise called "hida," a hide of land, and by Bede, "Familia." Spelman, voc. "Casa."

In old European law. A vassal or feudal tenant possessing a casata (q. v.), that is, having a house, household, and property of his own. The cassati embraced both bond and free ten

It is established and admitted that this fee is not earned (because there is not a 'case' within the meaning of the section) unless there be an arrest and an examination.

[Lat. casus, Fr. cas.X or TRES-

In practice. A written statement of facts drawn up in a certain form, and intended to be submitted to a court of law for its opinion or judgment. There are various kinds of cases,

It is that of a public prosecution, instituted and conducted by and in the name of the United States, for the purpose of vindicating the law of nations, and that of the United Stat

A statement of the facts of a case agreed on by the parties or found by another court.

A statement of facts agreed upon by the parties, and submitted to the court, in order to obtain a decision upon the points of law involved, without going through the forms of a reg

A case arising under a law, must mean a case depending on the exposition of a law, in respect to something which the law prohibits, or enjoins.

The reason for inserting that clause in the constitution was, that all persons who have real claims under a treaty should have their causes decided by the national tribunals... Whe

A case does so arise where an appropriate statement of the plaintiff's cause of action, unaided by any anticipation or avoidance of defenses, discloses that it really and substanti

A case in law or equity consists of the right of the one party, as well as of the other, and may truly be said to arise under the Constitution or a law of the United States, whenev

I. I In old English law. A dairy woman.

As used in this section the term “case-by-case basis” refers to a determination pursuant to this section made by the Comptroller concerning the impact of a particular State consume

The words 'case' and 'cause' are constantly used as synonyms in statutes and judicial decisions, each meaning a proceeding in court, a suit, or action.

A question of law certified by a lower court and submitted to a higher court for decision. See 128 U. S. 426, 32 L. Ed. 503, 9 Sup. Ct. Rep. 113.

In English divorce and probate practice, when a party desires to make a motion, he must file, among other papers, a case for motion, containing an abstract of the proceedings in th

The law evidenced by or derived.from the reported decisions. The law established by the force of such decisions as precedents, as distinguished from the reasons or philosophy of th

The term “caseload” means the average monthly number of individuals receiving supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits during the 12-month period ending the preceding Jun

Same as Case reserved.

The term “case management” means the provision of a client-centered approach in the delivery of services, designed— (A) to prepare and coordinate comprehensive employment plans, su

The term “case management service”— (A) means a service provided to an older individual, at the direction of the older individual or a family member of the individual— (i) by an in

The term “case management services” means services which will assist individuals eligible under the plan in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and other service

An English case in 1688 wherein the primate and six bishops were charged with libel for petitioning against the king’s order that his “declarations for liberty of conscience’, be r

In American Practice. Especially in states having reformed Codes of Procedure, a printed document prepared by an appellant, containing the substance of the evidence and proceedings

so long as the case retains the essentials of an adversary proceeding, involving a real, not a hypothetical, controversy, which is finally determined by the judgment below

In American practice. Before the argument in the appellate court of a case brought there for review, the appellant's counsel prepares a document or brief, bearing this name, for th

The term “case plan” means a written document which meets the requirements of section 675a of this title and includes at least the following: (A) A description of the type of home

The term “case record” means all the materials maintained by the Secretary related to an adverse decision.

A statement in writing of the facts proved on the trial of a cause, drawn up and settled by the attorneys and counsel for the respective parties under the supervision of the judge,

The term “case review system” means a procedure for assuring that— (A) each child has a case plan designed to achieve placement in a safe setting that is the least restrictive (mos

a third party claims a lien prior and superior to that of the libellant under the provisions of a statute of another State, and where such a controversy arises, say the equrt, in s

the judicial power vested by Article 3 of the Constitution in this Court and the inferior courts of the United States established by Congress thereunder, extends only to 'cases' an

by cases at common law are to be understood suits in which legal rights are to be ascertained and determined, in contradistinction to those where equitable rights alone are recogni

the language of the specification and claim, both of the surrendered and reissued patents, is so interspersed with technical terms and terms of art that the testimony of scientific

a court of equity will refuse the prayer of the complainant for an account of gains and profits, on the ground of delay in asserting his rights, even "when the facts proved render

by cases in equity are to be understood suits in which relief is sought according to the principles and practice of the equity jurisdiction, as established in English jurisprudence

a court will be satisfied upon the filing of the petition that reorganization is not feasible.

the agreement consists of mutual promises, the one promise being the consideration .for the other;- and it has never been seriously questioned that such an agreement is valid, and

In practice. A statement of all the facts of a case, with the names of the witnesses, and a detail of the documents which are to support them; a brief. An agreement in writing, bet

A method of law study by means of the analysis of cases or decisions.