Transport law
The transport law includes all legal norms on the transport of cargo or people .
General
The legal field of transport law is part of commercial law in many countries (e.g. in Germany), in Austria it is regulated in the company code. Transport law deals with the transportation modes of freight transport and passenger transport , with accompanying documents ( bill of lading , railway consignment note , bill of lading , sea waybill or air waybill ), the freight business , the rights and obligations of operators and the risk of transport -regulating the transfer of risk .
Legal situation in individual states
- Germany: Transport Law (Germany)
See also
literature
- Rolf Herber (Ed.): International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law . Vol. XII: Law of Transport. Mohr Siebeck, Tuebingen.
- Jürgen Basedow : The transport contract: studies on the approximation of private law on regulated markets . Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1987, ISBN 978-3-16-645200-5 .
