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INNKEEPERS, VETERINARY SURGEONS, ETC. 



Distrainor's 

 power of sale 

 by statute. 



containing notice of such intended sale, and giving sliortly 

 a description of the goods and chattels intended to be sold, 

 together with the name of the owner or person who de- 

 posited or left the same, where known." 



Under statute 5 & 6 Will. 4, c. 69, s. 4, requiring the 

 distrainor of any Horse (which word "Horse" may by 

 sect. 21 be construed as " Horses") to feed it while in the 

 pound, and empowering him, after seven days, to sell any 

 such Horse for the expenses, a party distraining several 

 Horses may, by a proper exercise of discretion, sell one 

 or more, for the expense of all. And it Avould seem that 

 he may repeat such sale from time to time as need re- 

 quires [It). This statute has been repealed. But its pro- 

 visions have been substantially re-enacted by 12 & 13 Vict. 

 c. 92, excej^t as to the power of sale. And this was 

 restored by 17 & 18 Vict. c. 60, s. 1. 



No law pecu- 

 liar to Vete- 

 rinary Sur- 

 geons. 



Farrier 

 cannot re- 

 fuse to shoe 

 a Horse. 



VETERINARY SURGEON AND FARRIER. 



There is no law which applies to a Vctcnnanj Surgeon 

 in particular ; and where there is no contract, he must go 

 upon a qua nf tun meruit. And an usage to charge for 

 attendance, where there is not much medicine required, is 

 too uncertain (/). 



Where a man takes upon himself a public employment 

 he is bound to serve the public as far as his employment 



I 



(Ji) Layton v. Il/nri/, 8 Q,. B. 811. 



(/) Zaiw V. Cotton, 1 Salk. 18. 

 The Eoyal College of Veterinary 

 Sm-geons was founded in the year 

 1791, and received a Charter of in- 

 corporation in the year 1815. By 

 its Charter, Veterinary Surgery is 

 constituted a profession, and the 

 registered members of its body are 

 alone to be recognized as the mem- 

 bers of the Veterinary profession. 

 Its diploma is granted only to per- 

 sons who have qualified themselves 

 by a certain educational course 

 tested by examination. In the 

 earlier editions of this work it was 

 suggested that it would be a secu- 

 rity to the Public against unc[iiaH- 

 fied practitioners, if the Legisla- 

 ture were to impose a penalty on 

 persons practising as Veterinary 

 Surgeons, without possessing a 

 diploma from this or some other 

 diily constituted body. This sug- 

 gestion is carried out by the Vete- 



rinary Surgeons Act, 1881 (44 & 45 

 Vict. c. C2), which by sects. 11, 12, 

 imposes a penalty not exceeding 

 50/. or imprisonment with or with- 

 out hard labour, for any term not 

 exceeding twelve months, on any 

 l^erson obtaining registration by 

 false representation, or on the re- 

 gistrar for wilful falsification of 

 the register of Veterinary Siu-- 

 geons. The Act, by sects. 13, 14, 

 further provides for the registra- 

 tion of colonial or foreign practi- 

 tioners possessing some recognized 

 diploma; by sect. 16 imposes a 

 penalty of 50/. on any person falsely 

 reiH-esenting himself to be a Mem- 

 ber of the Royal College ; and by 

 sect. 17 imjioses a like iienalty on 

 any person who, after 1883, prac- 

 tises without the necessary quali- 

 fications, and further incajjacitates 

 any such person from i-ecovering 

 any fee for iDcrforniing any vete- 

 rinary operation. 



