 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - Commerce - 1849 - 710 pages
...doubted. But admitting this right, it by no means follows that he can do so by any act of his own. He is in the exercise of a sort of public office, and has...the parties concerned. And this is not to be implied from a general notice to the public, limiting the obligations which may or may not be assented to.... | |
 | Commerce - 1849 - 710 pages
...doubted. But admitting this right, it by no means follows that he can do so by any act of his own. He is in the exercise of a sort of public office, and has...the parties concerned. And this is not to be implied from a general notice to the public, limiting the obligations which may or may not be assented to.... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Carriers - 1849 - 808 pages
...as it is, that he assented to their qualification. The carrier is in the exercise of a public duty, a sort of public office, and has public duties to...himself without the assent of the parties concerned. The owner of the goods, by entering into an express contract, virtually agrees, that, in respect to... | |
 | Joseph Kinnicut Angell - Business & Economics - 1851 - 836 pages
...as it is, that he assented to their qualification. The carrier is in the exercise of a public duty, a sort of public office, and has public duties to...himself without the assent of the parties concerned. The owner of the goods, by entering into an express contract, virtually agrees, that, in respect to... | |
 | Henry Flanders - Maritime law - 1853 - 584 pages
...legal rights, as it is that he was willing to yield to the wishes of the carrier.1 462. The carrier is in the exercise of a sort of public office, and has...from which he should not be permitted to exonerate him-' self without the assent of 'the parties concerned. And this is not to be implied or inferred... | |
 | Vermont. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 830 pages
...case of any insurer of goods. But it by no means follows " that he can do so by any act of his own. He has public duties " to perform, from which he should...himself without the assent of the parties concerned. " This is not to be implied, or inferred from a general notice to the " public limiting his obligation."... | |
 | Alexander Ralston Tiffany - Justices of the peace - 1859 - 656 pages
...(the carrier's) obligation, it by no means follows that he can do so, by any act of his own. He is in the exercise of a sort of public office, and has public duties to perform, from which he shall not be permitted to exonerate himself without the assent of the parties concerned. And this is... | |
 | William B. Wedgwood - Law - 1866 - 492 pages
...contract, restrict his common-law obligations, but that he cannot do this by any act of his own. He is in the exercise of a sort of public office, and has...perform, from which he should not be permitted to exto the carrier 1 Has the carrier a right to demand such information ? If the goods are of great value,... | |
 | Charles Patrick Daly - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 604 pages
...from the public nature of his calling. In the language of Justice Nelson, in the case cited, " he is in the exercise of a sort of public office, and has...himself without the assent of the parties concerned. He is bound to receive and carry all the goods offered for transportation, sub ject to all the responsibilities... | |
 | Law - 1887 - 542 pages
...rendered because the law requires them to be rendered for a fair remuneration. A common carrier " is in the exercise of a sort of public office, and has public duties to perform, from which be should not be permitted to exonerate himself." Nelson, J., in New Jersey Steam Nav. Co. v. Merchants'... | |
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Bank, 6 How. 344, 382, said that a common carrier was in the exercise " of a sort of public office, and has public duties to perform, from which he should not be permitted to exonerate himself without the assent of the parties concerned. 
