Definition of DEPOT in Black's Law Dictionary 4th Edition – Legal dictionary – Glossary of legal terms.
Definition of DEPOT
A railroad freight or passenger station; a place on the line of a railroad where passengers may enter and leave the trains and where freight is deposited for delivery; a place where the carrier is accustomed to receiving merchandise, deposit it, and keep it ready for transportation or delivery. Missouri Pac. R. Co. v. Williamson, 195 Ark. 487, 112 S.W.2d 957, 958. Chesapeake & 0. Ry. Co. v. Ricks, 146 Va. 10, 135 S.E. 685, 688.
A place for the deposit of goods; a warehouse, or a storehouse. Weyman v. City of Newport, 153 Ky. 487, 156 S.W. lop, 111.
A place where military supplies or stores are kept, or troops assembled. U. S. v. Caldwell, 19 Wall. 264, 22 L.Ed. 114.
Depot grounds. Station grounds. Atchison, T. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. McCall, 48 Okl. 602, 150 P. 173, 174. The place where passengers get off and on trains, where goods are loaded and unloaded, and all grounds necessary, convenient, and actually used for such purposes by the public and by the railway company, including the place where cars are switched and trains made up, also where tracks are used for storing cars, and where the public require open and free access to the railroad for the purpose of such business. Prince v. Chicago & N. W. Ry. Co., 165 Wis. 212, 161 N.W. 765, 766.
In French law. The depositum of the Roman and the deposit of the English law. It is of two kinds, being either (1) depot simply so called, and which may be either voluntary or necessary, and (2) sdquestre, which is a deposit made either under an agreement of the parties, and to abide the event of pending litigation regarding it, or by virtue of the direction of the court or a judge, pending litigation regarding it. Brown; Civ.Code La. 2926.
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