CARRIERS

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CARRIERS, contracts. There are two kinds of carriers, namely, common 
  carriers, (q.v.) who have been considered under another head; and private 
  carriers. These latter are persons who, although they do not undertake to 
  transport the goods of such as choose to employ them, yet agree to carry the 
  goods of some particular person for hire, from one place to another. 
       2. In such case the carrier incurs no responsibility beyond that of any 


  other ordinary bailee for hire, that is to say, the responsibility of 
  ordinary diligence. 2 Bos. & Pull. 417; 4 Taunt. 787; Selw. N. P. 382 n.; 1 
  Wend. R. 272; 1 Hayw. R. 14; 2 Dana, R. 430; 6 Taunt. 577; Jones, Bailm. 
  121; Story on Bailm, Sec. 495. But in Gordon v. Hutchinson, 1 Watts & Serg. 
  285, it was holden that a Wagoner Who carries goods for hire, contracts,the 
  responsibility of a common carrier, whether transportation be his principal 
  and direct business, or only an occasional and incidental employment. 
       3. To bring a person within the description of a common carrier, he 
  must exercise his business as a public employment; he must undertake to 
  carry goods for persons generally; and he must hold himself out as ready to 
  engage in the transportation of goods for hire, as a business; not as a 
  casual occupation pro hac vice. 1 Salk. 249; 1 Bell's Com. 467; 1 Hayw. R. 
  14; 1 Wend. 272; 2, Dana, R. 430. See Bouv. Inst. Index, b. t.