What is Common Carrier?

Common Carrier:

As per the Common Carrier Act of 1865, a common carrier can be any individual, firm, or a company (other than the Government) who transport goods, as a business, for money, over land or inland waterways, without discrimination between different consignors.

So, a common carrier, which is also known as a public carrier, is the ones that are being hired to carry goods from one place to another place.

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    Physiognomies of a common carrier:

• A common carrier can be an individual, a firm, or a company,
• Carrier of goods, so a carrier of passengers is not a common carrier,
• A common carrier carries goods for businesses, and for money.
• A common carrier is used to be ready to carry goods of any person without any discrimination,
• A common carrier deals with the carriage by land, and over inland waterways,
• A common carrier is kind of bound to carry the goods of any person, 
• The liabilities of a common carrier are defined the common carrier act of 1865,
• Example would be Public buses, railways, airplanes, etc.