# Title 8 — Carriage

## Chapter 8-01 — General Provisions

### § 8-01-01. Contract for carriage defined.

The contract of carriage is a contract for the conveyance of property, persons, or messages
from one place to another.
### § 8-01-02. Classification.

Carriage is either inland or marine. Carriers upon navigable waters or rivers which are
subject to the admiralty jurisdiction of the United States are marine carriers. All others are inland
carriers.
### § 8-01-03. Gratuitous carriers - Obligation.

Carriers without reward are subject to the same rules as employees without reward, except
so far as is otherwise provided by this title.
### § 8-01-04. Gratuitous carrier - Obligation where carriage begun.

A carrier without reward, who has begun to perform the carrier's undertaking, shall complete
it in like manner as if the carrier had received a reward, unless the carrier restores the person or
thing carried to as favorable a position as before the carrier commenced the carriage.
