The contract of carriage between a shipper and an air carrier. It serves the same purpose as a bill of lading on a vessel but is not a negotiable instrument.
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A bill of landing that covers both international and domestic lights transporting goods to a specified destination. This is a non-negotiable documents of air transport that serves as a receipt for the shipper, indicating that the carrier has accepted the goods listed and obligates itself to carry the consignment to the airport of destination according to specified conditions.
A system or Company for moving freight and passengers by aircraft; a route for transit by air.
The system of transporting mail by aircraft.
The rights vested by grant of an estate in real property to build upon, occupy or use in the manner and degree permitted, all or any portion of space above the ground or any other stated elevation without vertical planes the basis of which corresponds with the boundaries of the real estate described in the grant.
Carried by or through the air.
Afloat or flying aircraft.
The term ‘aircraft’ includes the engines, standard instruments and equipment ; extra equipment and accessories of an Aeroplane.
Public liability policy exclusion ensuring that aviation and marine risks are not covered unwittingly. The exclusion is overridden in respect of any liability attaching to the insured arising out of business entertainment on or in craft belonging to others, or in handpropelled boats. Work by the insured in or on aircraft or vessels (e.g. cleaning) should not normally be excluded.
Though aircraft have long been an important element in the lives of most Americans, insurance of aircraft exposures has remained outside the mainstream of property and liability insurance markets. Aircraft hull and liability insurance is the counterpart of personal or commercial auto policies coverage. Aircraft products insurance is the counterpart of products liability cover. Air cargo insurance is mirrored in motor truck cargo. Hangarkeepers liability is akin to garagekeepers coverage. As with any specialty line of insurance, the absence of standardized forms limits practice to specialists in the line.