Defenses Available to a Common Carrier

This topic has no further subtopics. Explore its practice questions below.

1. Under Article 1748, may an agreement limit liability for delay on account of strikes or riots?
2. A carrier without just cause changes the stipulated cargo route. The goods are lost, and the carrier invokes a contract…
3. The carrier refuses to transport cargo unless the shipper accepts a liability-limiting agreement. The shipper later see…
4. Cargo is stolen without grave or irresistible threat, violence or force. A carrier relies on a clause eliminating liabi…
5. A carrier has an otherwise valid cargo-liability limitation. Goods are lost, and the carrier argues the agreement elimi…
6. A carrier unjustifiably changes the stipulated cargo route and invokes a liability-limiting contract after loss. Explai…
7. Distinguish an otherwise valid cargo-liability limitation from elimination of Article 1752’s negligence presumption.
8. State Article 1750’s conditions for a contract fixing recoverable cargo-loss sums and Article 1746’s remedy where carri…