Author: George Brown

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 9780265174296

Excerpt from A Treatise on the Railway Canal Traffic Act, 1854: And on the Law of Carriers as Affected Thereby; With an Appendix, Containing Copious Reports of the Principal Cases Decided on the Act The want experienced by many railway oflicials, of a knowledge of the principles and grounds upon which the Court of Common Pleas has hitherto acted in car rying out the important Act usually known as Mr. Cardwell's Act, induced me to undertake the present work. It became necessary to introduce chapters on other topics connected with the duties of Carriers, in order properly to elucidate the bearing of the sta tute upon the Law of Carriers, so that not a few of the main points inthat law will be found noted. The object has been, not to make a large book, but to con dense as much matter as possible into a small com pass. The principles laid down by the Judges have been carefully laid down in Chapters IV., V., and VI., and such observations have been founded on them as may serve to indicate the probable course of the Court in future cases. In order to enable the reader to see the whole circumstances and effect of the decisions - copious reports of the leading cases have been given in the appendix. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.