Manager's Guide to Freight Loss and Damage Claims - Hardcover

Barrett, Colin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0874080487 ISBN 13: 9780874080483

Publisher: Springer, 1990

Synopsis

One of the most troublesome areas of transportation law is that applicable to freight loss and damage. The purpose of this book is to put those principles in the practical context of the transportation manager's day-to-day work. Not primarily for lawyers, but possibly of some help to them, this book is written to provide information for the transportation manager who must cope with this area of the law without the benefit of a legal education or background.

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"Legendary"--that's what a leading trade journal has said about consultant, author, and educator Colin Barrett. Barrett's name is well known from his 33 published books . . . his 21-year authorship of Traffic World's acclaimed "Questions and Answers" column . . . his influential Barrett Transportation Newsletter. In his three decades in the industry he's garnered a wall-full of plaques and awards honoring his knowledge and expertise.

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From Chapter 1--Introduction to the Law

The liability of transportation carriers for loss of, damage to, and/or delay of freight shipments is fixed by basic principles that are nearly as old as human civilization.

Indeed, the underpinnings of those principles date all the way back to times from which no written records survive. From the instant human society gave recognition to the concept of "chattel goods"--the legal term for one's possessions--it also had to face up to the complexities deriving from the fact that those chattel goods won't always be in the physical custody of their owner. That is, what happens if the goods should be lost or suffer injury when they are (temporarily) in another person's hands?

Over millennia the standards for resolving this question were refined into what has become known as the "law of bailments." In law, a bailment is "the relation created through the transfer of the possession of goods or chattels, by a person called the bailor to a person called the bailee, without a transfer of ownership, for the accomplishment of a certain purpose, whereupon the goods or chattels are to be dealt with according to the instructions of the bailor." In simpler (non-legal) terms, a "bailment" exists when one person has in his or her possession property that belongs to (is the "chattel goods" of) somebody else.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874080487
• ISBN 13: 9780874080483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232