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Definition of Carriers
1. carrier [n] - See also: carrier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carriers
Literary usage of Carriers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"[419] The ninth section of that Act creates a commission to be known as the "Railroad
and Ware- Act to Regulate Common carriers, and Creating the Railroad ..."
2. Hand-book of the Law of Torts by Edwin Ames Jaggard (1895)
"WHO ARE COMMON carriers. 293. A common carrier is one who is engaged in ...
As carriers by land, the law recognizes, for example, express companies,5 stage ..."
3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William M. Lacy (1889)
"They are bound to indemnify, in cases in .which they are liable as common carriers,
according to the value at the place where they may have contracted to ..."
4. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1912)
"The first section makes the act apply alike to common carriers engaged in the
... It is conceded that the carriers filing the bills in these cases were ..."