Sections
11 entriesSection 2168Defines a common carrier as anyone who offers to the public to carry persons, property, or messages, except telegraphic messages, and treats…Section 2169Requires compliance with the rule that a common carrier must, if able to do so, accept and carry whatever is offered to…Section 2170Prohibits common carriers from preferring one person over another in time, price, or otherwise. Requires intrastate railroad passenger carriers and vessels to…Section 2171Requires a common carrier always to give the United States and the State a preference in time when providing carriage. Allows the…Section 2172Requires section Twenty-one Hundred and Seventy-two. A common carrier to start at such time and place as he announces to the public,…Section 2173Allows a common carrier to charge reasonable compensation and no more, and to require that compensation in advance. If the customer refuses…Section 2174Limits a common carrier’s ability to restrict its obligations: a general notice cannot limit those obligations, but a special contract may. Establishes…Section 2175Prohibits a common carrier from using an advance agreement to exonerate itself from liability for its own or its servants’ gross negligence,…Section 2176Establishes that accepting a ticket, bill of lading, or written carriage contract with knowledge of its terms signifies assent to the stated…Section 2177Establishes that section Twenty-one Hundred and Seventy-seven. A common carrier is not responsible for loss or miscarriage of a letter, or package…Section 2178Limits a steam- or electric-railroad common carrier’s liability for passenger-connected baggage loss or injury to $100 for each trunk and contents, $50…