Unless the consignor accompanies the freight and retains exclusive control thereof, a common carrier of property is liable, from the time that he accepts until he relieves himself from liability as hereinafter provided, for the loss or injury thereof from any cause whatever, except:
1. An inherent defect, vice or weakness, or a spontaneous action, of the property itself.
2. The act of a public enemy of the United States, or of this state.
3. The act of the law; or,
4. Any irresistible superhuman cause.
R.L. 1910, § 815.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§13-1. Contract of carriage defined.
§13-2. Gratuitous carriers - Rules governing.
§13-3. Duty to complete undertaking.
§13-4. Common carrier defined.
§13-5. Duty to accept and carry.
§13-6. Preference to state and United States.
§13-7. Starting time and place.
§13-9. Railroad and express companies - Excessive rates.
§13-10. Telegraph and telephone companies - Excessive rates.
§13-11. Rate schedules - Inspection.
§13-12. Overcharges - Penalty.
§13-13. Concealing rate schedules - Penalty.
§13-14. Limitation of obligations.
§13-15. Exoneration from liability.
§13-16. Acceptance of ticket, etc., as assent to contract.
§13-31. Gratuitous carriers - Care required.
§13-32. Carriers for reward - Care and skill required.
§13-33. Duty to provide safe and fit vehicles.
§13-34. Overcrowding or overloading.
§13-35. Passengers - Accommodations - Treatment - Attention.
§13-36. Speed - Delay - Deviation.
§13-37. Luggage - Duty to carry - Charges.
§13-39. Liability for luggage.
§13-40. Carriage and delivery of luggage.
§13-41. Vehicles for accommodation of passengers.
§13-43. Power to make and enforce rules.
§13-44. Time for payment of fares.
§13-45. Ejection of passengers.
§13-46. Lien on luggage for fare.
§13-62. Care and diligence required.
§13-67. Notice to consignee - Safekeeping pending removal.
§13-68. Exoneration from liability - Storage of freight - Notice to consignee.
§13-71. Application to hotel keepers and warehousemen.
§13-112. Liability of consignor.
§13-113. Liability of consignee.
§13-115. Apportionment of freightage.
§13-116. Apportionment on acceptance of part of freight.
§13-117. Apportionment according to distance.
§13-131. Liability for loss or injury - Exceptions.
§13-132. Liability for negligence in excepted cases.
§13-133. Liability for delays.
§13-151. Coal - Statement of weight in bill of lading.
§13-152. Coal - Reweighing at destination - Liability for deficiencies or shrinkage.
§13-153. Connecting carrier - Reweighing on transfer.
§13-154. Consignee - Reweighing at destination - Liability of carrier.
§13-155. Failure to weigh - False weights - Penalties.
§13-156. Weighing interstate shipments.
§13-157. Method of weighing - Stencil weights.
§13-176.3. Prohibited acts - Felonies – Penalties - Venue.
§13-176.4. Acts not prohibited.
§13-176.5. Seizure and forfeiture of certain devices.
§13-176.6. Use of certain intercepted communications as evidence prohibited.
§13-176.7. Court order authorizing interception of communications.
§13-176.8. Disclosure of information.
§13-176.10. Recording intercepted communication - Seal - Inventory - Inspection - Violation.
§13-176.12. Conditions for use of intercepted communication as evidence or disclosure at trial.
§13-176.13. Suppression of intercepted communication or evidence derived therefrom.
§13-176.14. State's right to appeal certain orders.
§13-177.3. Application for order or extension of order.
§13-177.4. Court order - Contents - Duration.
§13-201. Free choice of sureties by employees.
§13-202. Sureties - Residence - Corporations.