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Definition of Rolling stock
1. Noun. Collection of wheeled vehicles owned by a railroad or motor carrier.
Definition of Rolling stock
1. Noun. (rail transport) collective term for all vehicles that move on a railway, powered or unpowered. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rolling Stock
Literary usage of Rolling stock
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"By filing its petition, and asking for the delivery of the road, etc. By taking
nn appeal. The question of the rolling stock baa been twice before the ..."
2. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1921)
"The same is valid with regard to rolling stock belonging to private railway ...
That such rolling stock may not be used by a belligerent without the consent ..."
3. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"MAINTENANCE AND REPRODUCTION OF THE rolling stock. A QUESTION has lately been
raised among railway companies, \ respecting the wear and tear of the rolling ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Corporate Bonds and Mortgages: Being the Second by Leonard Augustus Jones (1890)
"Here, then, is a consideration showing that a company intends the rolling stock
to be used only for the road, or, in other words, to become a permanent ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"The "rolling stock" of a railroad IB Incapable of being affixed or annexed ...
It is equipped when the rolling stock and all other necessary appliances and ..."
6. The Law Journal Reports: New Series (1881)
"The rolling stock and plant are part of the capital of the company. Under section
23, the debenture holders have " priority against the .... property ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Corporate Bonds and Mortgages: Being the 3d Edition by Leonard Augustus Jones (1907)
"If a railroad company buys or constructs rolling stock for its own use with money
furnished by a car-trust company, under a contract in the form of a lease, ..."
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