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Railway

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910)

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Synonymous with Railroad. See 147 Pa. St. 579, 30 Am. St. Rep. 763, 23 Atl. 884.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

In law, this term is of ex actly equivalent import to "mliroad." See State v. Brin, 30 Minn. 522, 16 N. W. 406; Millvale Borough v. Evergreen Ry. Co., 131 Pa. 1, 18 Atl. 993, 7 In R. A. 369; Massachusetts L. & T. Co. v. Hamllton, 88 Fed. 592, 32 C. C. A. 46.

Railway commissioners. A body of three commissioners appointed under the English regulation of railways act, 1873, principally to enforce the provisions of the railway and canal traffic act, 1854, by compelling railway and canal companies to give reasonable facilities for traffic, to abstain from .giving unreasonable preference to any company or person, and to forward through traffic at through rates. They also have the supervision of working agreements between companies. Sweet