Freight is properly the price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier, at sea, from port to port But the term is also used to denote the hire paid for the carriage of goods on laud from place to place, (usually by a railroad company, not an express company,) or on inland streams or lakes. The name is also applied to the goods or merchandise transported by any of the above means. Brittan v. Barnaby, 21 How. 533, 16 L. Ed. 177; Huth v. Insurance Co., 8 Bosw. (N. Y.) 552; Christie v. Davis Coal Co. (D. C.) 95 Fed. 838; Hagar v. Donaldson, 154 Pa. 242, 25 Atl. 824; Paradise v. Sun Mut Ins. Co., 6 La. Ann. 596.
Property carried is called “freight;” the reward, if any, to be paid for its carriage is called “freightage;” the person who delivers the freight to the carrier is called the “consignor;” and the person to whom it is to be delivered is called the “consignee.” Civil Code Cal