"Common carrier ".-"common carrier " denotes a person, other than the Government, engaged in the business of transporting property under multimodal transport document or of] transporting for hire property from place to place, by land or inland navigation, for all persons indiscriminately:
"Person ".-["person "] [Cf. definition in Section 3(42) of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (10 of 1897).] includes any association or body of persons, whether incorporated or not.
[* * *] [The paragraph relating to 'number' repealed by Act 10 of 1914.]