Shippers and Carriers of Interstate Freight (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Watkins, Edgar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1334589453 ISBN 13 : 9781334589454

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

In Shippers and Carriers of Interstate Freight, this practical guide explains how the law shapes every shipment across state lines. It shows how rates are made, what counts as fair treatment, and how enforcement works in the real world.

The book outlines the duties of carriers, the rights of shippers, and the role of the commission in setting and policing transportation rules. It emphasizes practical questions practitioners face as interstate commerce expands and new statutes and decisions impact daily logistics.

• How rates must be just and reasonable and what factors influence fairness


• What constitutes discrimination and how it is addressed in practice


• The functions of the commission and how it enforces rate and service rules


• The relationship between schedules, through routes, and joint rates in intercity transport

Ideal for readers of legal history, transportation policy, and professionals navigating early 20th-century interstate freight law.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

No branch of the hiw is more important than that discussing the relative rights and duties of shippers and carriers of interstate freight, and no branch of the law is less generally knoAM i than that relating to those rights and duties. The purpose of this book is to help those who may be called upon to advise as to such rights and duties to an understanding of this interesting phase of the law. In approaching the subject the experience of an active practitioner was drawn upon to determine what would be most useful, not only to the legal profession, but to traffic men, whether in the employ of the carriers or of those bureaus organized all over the country to aid and advise shippers. From tliis experience, it was thought that where the state of the authorities justified, the law should be given as nearly as might be in the language of the courts having final authority to annomice that law. For this reason, in those questions that have been definitely determined, liberal quotations have been inserted. Many questions, however, affecting the subject of this book have not yet been determined. Where this is true, the opinions of the Federal courts, and of the Interstate Commerce Commission, and in some instances the State courts, on subjects analagous to that imder discussion, have been referred to and discussed. In tliis way it has been sought to deduce the principles of law. The A ct to Regulate Commerce has been annotated not only with the decisions of the courts but also with the opinions of the Interstate Commerce Commission. This will enable any one desiring to investigate a particular provision of that act to trace the construction thereof by the references that have been made thereto by the tribunals whose duty it is to enforce this great statute.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1334589453
• ISBN 13: 9781334589454
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 580
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible