Ticket

A mere receipt, token or voucher adopted for convenience-/ to.show that the passenger has paid his fare from one place to another. It does not constitute the contract of carriage. Parol evidence of the contract is admissible. 161 111. 195; 149 111, 607; 162 111, 531,

A railroad ticket is a receipt or voucher, rather than a contract; 5 L. R. A. 818, note; Logan v. R. Co., 77 Mo. 663; Prank v. Ingalls, 41 Ohio St. 560; it is the evidence of a contract, hut does not constitute the whole contract; 34 Ain. & Eng. It. R. Cas. 219; Kansas City, St. J. & C. B. R. Co. v. Rodebaugh, 38 Kan. 45, 15 Pac. 899, 5 Am. St. Rep. 715; it may contain some condition or limitation which becomes a part of the contract; Terry v. R. Co., 13 Hun (N. Y.) 359; Lake S. & M. S. Ry. Co. v. Rosenzweig, 113 Pa. 519, 6 Atl. 545. The actual contract may be shown by parol testimony; New York, L. E. & W. R. Co. v. Winter, 143 U. S. 60, 12 Sup. Ct. 350, 36 L. Ed. 71; Peterson v. Ry. Co., SO la. 92, 45 N. W. 573; and that, not the ticket, which is merely evidence of it, controls the rights and duties of carriers and passengers; C. N. O. & T. P. R. Co. v. Harris, 115 Tenn. 501, 91 S. W. 211, 5

In contracts. A Slip of paper containing a certificate that the person to whom it is issued or the holder, is entitled to some right or privilege therein mentioned or described; such, for example, are railroad tickets, theater tickets, pawn tickets, lottery tickets, etc. See Allaire v. Howell Works Co., 14 N. J. Law, 24.

In election law. A ticket ls a paper upon which is written or printed the names of the persons for whom the elector intends to vote, with a designation of the office to which each person so named is intended by him to be chosen. Pol. Code Cal. § 1185. See In re Gerberich's Nomination. 24 Pa. Co. Ct. R. 255.

— Ticket of leave. In English law. A license or permit given to a convict, as a reward for good conduct, particularly in the penal settlements, which allows him to go at large, and labor for himself, before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions and revocable upon subsequent misconduct.

— Tioket-of-leave man. A convict who bas obtained a ticket of leave.

The meaning, in a statute, is a matter of construction: the word itself has no determinate signification; — for there are 1 People V. Scoggins, 37 Cal. 683-84 (1869), Crockett; J.; People V. lams, 57 id. 126-27 (1880); People i>. Campbell, 59 id. 247-51 (1881), cases; United States v. Leighton, 4 Dak. T. 31 (1882). " Goodwin v. State, 96 Ind. 552 (1884): 4 Cr. Law Mag. 583, cases. ' State V. Beaudet, 53 Conn. 542-51 (1885), cases. < [4 Bl. Com. 137, 126.' » See 2 Bish. Cr. L. § 1200; 8 Whart. Cr. L. § 1664; 3 Cr. L. Mag. 720; 26 Iowa, 122; 24 Me. 71; 68 id. 473; 138 Mass. 65; 12 Allen, 447; 68 Mo. 66; 2 Barb. 427; 36 Ohio St. 818. 'Hyde Park u. Cemetery Association, 119 111. 147 (1886). lottery tickets, play-house tickets, admission tickets at public exhibitions and private parties, tickets to seats on a stage, tickets for passage on boats, etc.' Lottery ticket. See Lottery. Bailroad ticket. A token or voucher, adopted for convenience, showing that the passenger has paid his fare from one place to another: generally it does not contain, and ordinarily it is not intended to contain, a contract, but is a receipt for money only.2 Issued to a passenger, is a receipt for the passage money, and may be assigned by delivery so as to give a right of action for the value of unused coupons." That a discount will be made, when purchased before entering the car, is a reasonable regulation. A company is not bound to keep its office open after the time advertised for the departure of the train.* The sale of a ticket is an undertaking that due cate for safety vritl be used in managing trains and maintaining the road.* See further Carrier, Of passengers; Couponticket; Time-table. Ticket of leave. Under English laws, a convict, particularly one sent to a penal settlement, for continued good conduct may have a license, called "a ticket of leave," tobe at large; amounting, practically, in cases, to a remission of the sentence, within the conditions prescribed. Whence ticket-ofleave man. The conditions are that the holder shall preserve his license, and produce it when called tor by any of Scer of the peace; shall abstain from violating the laws; shall not associate with bad characters; and shall not lead an idle or dissolute life. Ticket to a theater. The lawful holder of a ticket to a seat in a theater has more than a mere license; his right is rather in the nature of a lease, entitling him to peaceable ingress and egress, and exclusive possession ' [Allaire v. Howell Works Co., 14 N. J. L. 23 (18.33), Homblower, C. J. See generally 1 Harv. Law Rev. 17- 33 (1887), cases. ' [Rawson v. Pennsylvania E. Co., 42 N. Y. 217 (1873); Earl, C.; Gordon v. Manchester, &c. B. Co., 52 N. H. 599 (1S73); Logan i: Hannibal, &c. K. Co., 77 Mo. 66 (1883). ' Hudson V. Kansas Pacific E. Co., 13 Rep. 295 (1883): 9 F. E. 879. H. was a " ticket broker," and the railroad company refused to redeem tickets held by him. * Swan V. Manchester, &c. E Co., 133 Mass. 116 (1883),

What the legislature has meant by the word ticket, in a statute to prohibit the circulation of tickets, must he matter of construction, to be gathered from the terms employed in the act; the word itself has no legal or other fixed and determinate meaning. There are tickets of various descriptions and for various purposes, such as lottery tickets, play-house tickets, admission tickets at public exhibitions or private parties, or to a seat in a stage, or for a passage in a steamboat, and others. Allaire v. Howell Works Co., 14 N. J. L. 21. Ticket of leave. Under English laws, a convict, particularly one of those sent to the penal settlements abroad, may, upon continued good conduct, have granted to him a license to be at large; which amounts, in some instances, to a practical remission of the sentence, within the limits and conditions prescribed. This license is called a ticket of leave. It is forfeited by subsequent misconduct. Ticket of leave is a written license to a convict sentenced to penal servitude, to be at large before the expiration of his sentence, and is granted under the hand or seal of one of her majesty's principal secexpressed are: The holder shall preserve his license, and produce it when called upon to do so by a magistrate or police-officer; he shall abstain from any violation of the law; he shall not habitually associate with notoriously bad characters; he shall not lead an idle and dissolute life, without visible means of obtaining an honest livelihood. These licenses are revocable at any time before the term of the sentence has expired: and, if a license is revoked in consequence of the party's conviction for any of Eence, he will be liable to undergo a term of penal servitude equal to the portion of his term which remained unexpired when the license was granted. Mozley Sf W. Ticket-of-leave man. A convict who has obtained a ticket of leave.