Packed Parcels — Law Dictionary

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, each bearing a different address, collefted from different persons by the immediate consignor (a carrier), who unites them into one for his own profit, at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway company would have been paid more for the carriage of the parcels singly than together.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

The name for a consignment of goods consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, collected from different persons by the immediate consignor, who united them into one for his own profit, at the expense of the carrier. Whart.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

The name for a consignment of goods, consisting of one large parcel made up of several small ones, (each bearing a different address,) collected from different persons by the immediate consignor, (a carrier,) who unites them into one for his own profit, at the expense of the railway by which they are sent, since the railway company would have been paid more for the carriage of the parcels singly than together. Wharton.