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Cargo : \Car"go\, n.; pl. Cargoes. [Sp. cargo, carga, burden,
load, from cargar to load, from cargar to load, charge, See
Charge.]
The lading or freight of a ship or other vessel; the goods,
merchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat;
load; freight.
Cargoes of food or clothing. --E. Everett.
Note: The term cargo, in law, is usually applied to goods
only, and not to live animals or persons. --Burill.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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CARGO, mar. law. The entire load of a ship or other vessel. Abb. on Sh.
Index, h.t.; 1 Dall. 197; Merl. Rep. h.t.; 2 Gill & John. 136. This term
is usually applied to goods only, and does not include human beings. 1
Phill. Ins. 185; 4 Pick. 429. But in a more extensive and less technical
sense, it includes persons; thus we say aCargo : of emigrants. See 7 Mann.
Gr. 729, 744.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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