law: Carriers Act, 1865
  2.
  
  Interpretation-clause.-
  In
  
  this Act, unless there be something repugnant in the subject or context-
  
  Common carrier. - "common
  
  carrier" denotes a person, other than the Government, engaged in the
  
  business of transporting for hire property from place to place, by land or
  
  inland navigation, for all persons indiscriminately:
  Person.-{ Cf.definition in s.3 (42) of the General
  
  Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897)} "person" includes any association for
  
  body of persons, whether incorporated or not.
  {The paragraph relating to "number" was rep.by 
  
  Act 10 of 1914.}