What is CARRIAGE? Definition of CARRIAGE in Black's Law Dictionary – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.
A vehicle used especially for the transportation of persons either for pleasure or business, and drawn by horses or other draught animals over the ordinary streets and highways of the country; not including cars used exclusively upon railroads or street railroads expressly constructed for the use of such cars. Snyder v. North Lawrence, 8 Kan. 84; Cream City R. Co. v. Chicago, etc., R. Co., 63 Wis. 93, 23 N.W. 425, 53
Am.Rep. 267.
The act of carrying, or a contract for transportation of persons or goods.
As used in exemption statutes, includes an automobile, Patten v. Sturgeon, C.C.A.Okl., 214 F. 65, 67, Hammond v. Pickett, Tex.Civ.App., 158 S.W. 174. 175, and it includes motor vehicles under various other circumstances. Ansell v. City of Boston, 254 Mass. 208, 150 N.E. 167, 168; State v. Jarvis, 89 Vt. 239, 95 A. 541, 543.
In admiralty, "carriage" includes ability to lift a cargo and hold it afloat, and does not necessarily involve any translation of the vessel from one place to another. The Jungshoved, D.C.N.Y., 272 F. 122, 124.
The business of carriage is that arising under contracts by which a person obligates himself, for an agreed price, to transport, or have transported, an object of some kind, to a designated place. Kocke v. Gamier, 15 La.App. 461, 131 So. 198, 199.
The contract of carriage is a contract for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages, from one place to another. Civ.Code Cal. § 2085; Comp.Laws N.D.1913, § 6185; Comp.Laws S.D.1929, § 1108.
As to "carriage by land or water" within the Illinois Workmen's Compensation Act, see Stevens v. Illinois Cent. R. Co., 306 Iii. 370, 137 N.E. 859, 861; Mattoon Clear Water Co. v. Industrial Commission, 291 Ill. 487, 126 N.E. 168, 169.
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