What is the definition of “driver” and what is the full definition of the term?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from Waterloo (Regional Municipality) v. Bydeley, 2010 ONCJ 740 (CanLII):

[39] The defendant provides a definition of “driver” that reads “one employed in conducting a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle”. This is from the Fourth Edition of Black’s Law Dictionary. However, the full definition of this term, from the revised Fourth Edition, is as follows: “One employed in conducting or operating a coach, carriage, wagon, or other vehicle, with horses, mules, or other animals, or a bicycle, tricycle or motor car, through not a street railroad car. A person actually doing driving, whether employed by owner to drive or driving his own vehicle.” This is taken from Wallace v. Woods, 340 M. 452, 102 S.W. 2d 91 @ 97, a 1936 case from Missouri.

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