56-119 - Contracts, etc., limiting liability invalid. - Virginia Statutes

§ 56-119. Contracts, etc., limiting liability invalid.

No contract, receipt, rule, or regulation shall exempt any transportationcompany from the liability of a common carrier which would exist had nocontract been made or entered into and no such contract, receipt, rule, orregulation for exemption from liability for injury or loss occasioned by theneglect or misconduct of such transportation company as a common carriershall be valid. The liability referred to in this section shall mean theliability imposed by law upon a common carrier for any loss, damage, orinjury to freight or passengers in its custody and care as a common carrier.

(Code 1919, §§ 3926, 3930; 1979, c. 477.)