Legal Definition and Related Resources of Carrier

A person holding himself out to transport goods and persons for hire. Carriers are of two kinds, common and private. A common carrier is one who invites all and sundry to employ him without reserving to himself the right of accepting or rejecting their offers of goods or persons for carriage . He is a person who undertakes for hire to transport from place to place persons or goods of all such persons as think fit to employ him for a consideration . Whether a transportation agency is a common carrier depends not upon its corporate charter or declared purpose but on what it does. U.S. v California, 297 U.S. 175, 80 L.Ed. 567, 56 S.Ct. 421. A private carrier, on the other hand, is one who undertakes to transport people or to carry goods in a particular case, but is not engaged in the business of so carrying as a public employment and does not undertake to carry goods for persons generally. The standard of care imposed on a common carrier is higher than that imposed on a private carrier. The obligations and liabilities of a common carrier do not depend upon contract . Philadelphia and R.R. Co. v Derby, 14 L.Ed. 502.

One who undertakes to transport goods from one place to another. 1 Pars. Cont. 632. They are either common or private. Private carriers incur the responsibility of the exercise of ordinary diligence only, like other bailees for hire. Story, Bailm. § 495; 13 Barb. (N. Y.) 481; 1 Wend. (N. Y.) 272; 1 Hayw. (N. C.) 14; 2 Dana (Ky.) 430;’ 4 Taunt. 787; 6 Taunt. 577; 2 Bos. & P. 417; 2 C. B. 877. See Common Carriers.

An individual or entity that transports persons or goods for compensation under the contract of carriage.

The insurance company or HMO offering a health plan.

noun

• conveyor
• dispatcher
• express shipper
• ferrier
• shipper
• steamship company
• transferor
• transport company
• Associated Concepts: air carriers
• baggage
• carrier by air
• carrier engaged in interstate commerce
• carrier for hire
• carrier of goods
• carrier of passengers
• carrier’s lien
• common carriers
• forwarding carriers
• initial carriers
• motor vehicle carrier
• operating carriers
• private carriers
• public carriers
• railroad carriers

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Carrier in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

One who engages to transport persons or property.

Note: This legal definition of Carrier in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

Carrier’s lien in Law Enforcement

Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of carrier’s lien.

Carrier in Maritime Law

Note: There is more information on maritime/admiralty law here.

The following is a definition of Carrier, produced by Tetley, in the context of admiralty law: A party who contracts to carry goods or passengers by water (the “contracting carrier”), or the party who actually performs such carriage in whole or part (the “actual carrier”). See Tetley, M.C.C., 4 Ed., 2008 at pp. 1355-1356, and particularly at pp. 1356-1361; Tetley, Int’l. M. & A. L., 2003 at pp. 104-105.

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Officer
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• carrier’s lien in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• carrier’s lien in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis

Carrier in Law Enforcement

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

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See Also

• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Officer
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

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

English Legal System: Carrier

In the context of the English law, A Dictionary of Law provides the following legal concept of Carrier :

One who transports persons or goods from one place to another. Carriage is normally under a contract that may affect or limit the duties otherwise imposed bylaw, but such contracts may be subject to statutory control. Carriers of goods are bailees of the goods consigned.

A common carrier is one who publicly undertakes to carry any goods or persons for payment on the routes he covers. A common carrier is subject to three common-law duties:

(1) he must, if he has space, accept any goods of the type he carries or any person;

(2) he must charge only a reasonable rate; and

(3) he is strictly liable for all loss or damage to goods in the course of transit (but see inherent vice). All other carriers are private carriers, and they owe only a duty of reasonable care.

Carrier to Noise Ratio (c/n) in the National Security Context

A definition and brief description of Carrier to Noise Ratio (c/n) in relation to national security is as follows:A ratio used to measure and denote signal quality. The greater the ratio the better the signal.

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Translation of Carrier

• Spanish: Transportista
• French: Transporteur
• German: Transportunternehmer
• Italian: Trasportatore
• Portuguese: Transportador
• Polish: Przewo&zacute;nik

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