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ROLLING STOCK

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ROLLING STOCKmain
Black's Law Dictionary • 1891
The portable or movable apparatus and machinery of a rail- road, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks.
ROLLING STOCKmain
Black's Law Dictionary (2nd Ed.) • 1910
The portable or movable apparatus and machinery of a railroad, particularly such as moves on the road, viz., engines, cars, tenders, coaches, and trucks. See Beardsley v. Ontario Bank, 31 Barb. (N. Y.) 635; Ohio & M. R. Co. ve Weber, 96 Ill. 448; Pittsburgh, etc., R. Co. v. Backus, 154 U. S. 421, 14 Sup. Ct. 1114, 38 L. Ed. 1031. —Rolling stock protection act. The act of 35 & 36 Vict. c. 50, passed to protect the rolling stock of railways from distress or sale in certain cases.
ROLLING STOCKmain
Rapalje & Lawrence • 1883
-In England, the rolling stock of a railway company cannot be taken in execution, (see Midland Waggon Co. г. Potteries Rail. Co., 6 Q. B. D. 36; see EXECUTION, 27;) and the rolling stock of a railway company, when in use in a manufactory, pier, mine, or similar place belonging to some person or company other than the railway company, cannot be taken in distress for rent payable by the tenant of the manufactory, pier, mine, &c., provided it is s conspicuously marked as belonging the rail railway company. to с. 50.
rolling stocknoun
Wiktionary (English) • 2026
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All vehicles that move on a railway, powered or unpowered. | Any such vehicle.

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