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Common carriers are ________ engaged in the business of carrying or transporting passengers or goods or both, by land, water, or air, for compensation, offering their services to the public

• persons, corporations, joint ventures or associations

• persons, partnership, joint ventures, association

• persons, corporations, firms or associations

• persons, sole proprietor, firms or associations

Common carriers, from the nature of their business and for reasons of public policy, are bound to observe _______ in the vigilance over the goods and for the safety of the passengers transported by them, according to all the circumstances of each case.

• ordinary diligence

• extraordinary diligence

• whatever stipulated degree of diligence

Common carriers are responsible for the loss, destruction, or deterioration of the goods, unless the same is due to any of the following causes only:

(1) Flood, storm, earthquake, lightning, or other natural disaster or calamity;

(2) Act of the public enemy in war, whether international or civil;

(3) Act or omission of the shipper or owner of the goods;

(4) The character of the goods or defects in the packing or in the containers;

(5) ____________

• Act or omission of consignee

• Act or omission of carrier

• Order or act of competent public authority

The common carrier's duty to observe extraordinary diligence over the goods remains in full force and effect even when they are temporarily unloaded or stored in transit, unless the shipper or owner has made use of the _______

• right of stoppage in transitu.

• right to delay

• right of cancellation

• right to decline payment

If the shipper or owner merely contributed to the loss, destruction or deterioration of the goods, the proximate cause thereof being the negligence of the common carrier, the latter shall be liable in damages, which however, shall be equitably _______

• dismissed.

• reduced.

• aggravated.

• exempted.

Is a stipulation between the common carrier and the shipper or owner limiting the liability of the former for the loss, destruction, or deterioration of the goods to a degree less than extraordinary diligence valid or invalid?

• valid

• invalid

An agreement limiting the common carrier's liability for delay on account of strikes or riots is _____.

• valid

• invalid

Is a contract fixing the sum that may be recovered. by the owner or shipper for the loss, destruction, or deterioration of the goods valid if it is reasonable and just under the circumstances, and has been fairly and freely agreed upon?

• valid

• invalid

The law of the country to which the goods ________shall govern the liability of the common carrier for their loss, destruction or deterioration.

• came from

• are to be transported

The responsibility of a common carrier for the safety of passengers can be dispensed with or lessened by stipulation, by the posting of notices, by statements on tickets, or otherwise.

• True

• False