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The Traffic Library Law of Common Carriers, Abridged The Common and Statutory Law of Common Carriers State Regulation of Railroads
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PREFACE
ALL
transportation and functions of common carriers
are not controlled by the Act to Regulate Commerce
and other federal legislation. There are
forms of transportation and corporate rights, responsibilities
and duties of carriers, which do not come within the
purview of the national system of regulation.
The Act to Regulate Commerce was intended by Congress
to afford an effective and comprehensive means for
redressing wrongs resulting from unjust discrimination
and undue preferences by carriers, as these wrongs affected
interstate commerce. In short, its definement is essentially
limited to securing just and reasonable charges for
transportation, prohibiting unjust discriminations, preventing
undue or unreasonable preferences, and abolishing
combinations between carriers for the pooling of freights.
It does not, however, enter the domain of the common law
control of corporate rights of carriers, their contractual
responsibilities to shippers whose property is in course of
transportation, or the duties devolving upon carriers in
the rendition of. transportation services not within the
jurisdiction of the Act.
There is no federal common law distinct from the common
law of England, which latter customary system of law
has been adopted by our several states and modified by
their own statutes as needs have required. And so, to those
laws of the states, except where the Constitution, treaties
or statutes of the United States otherwise require or proui
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vide, we must turn for the rules of decision in trials at common
law affecting those rights and responsibilities existing
between carriers and shippers which are not embraced
within the scope of the authority of the Act to Regulate
Commerce and its amendatory and supplementary laws.
In this volume has been prepared a compendium of the
common and statutory law—the laws of the states—as
rules of decision, for the ready use of the traffic man and
the shipper, in solving the various legal problems of commercial
transportation.
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