Legal Definition and Related Resources of Car

Any vehicle primarily intended for transportation of persons or freight . See Hal! v federal Life Ins. Co., (Mo.App.)71 S. W.2d 762.

A loose quantity term sometimes used to describe a the amount of a commodity underlying one commodity contract; e.g., “a car of bellies.” Derived from the fact that quantities of the product specified in a contract used to correspond closely to the capacity of a railroad car.

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Car in Historical Law

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What does Car mean in American Law?

The definition of Car in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:

Obviously from “carriage,” and today principally referring to automobiles and railroad cars (of all kinds).

Heavy motor car in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of heavy motor car.

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• Carrier
• Common
• Railroad

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• heavy motor car in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• heavy motor car in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Concept of Car in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Car: California Association of Realtors.

Concept of Car in the context of Real Property

A short definition of Car: California Association of Realtors.

Concept of “Car”

Traditional meaning of car in the French law history (with some legal use in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in French) For; because. Car entant: forasmuch.

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Notes and References

1. Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Car”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.

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