90 ESSENTIALS OF VETERINARY LAW 



erinarian may subject himself to penalties under 

 enacted statutes or ordinances. Thus, where a 

 local law gives a body or an officer the authority 

 to prevent cruelty to animals, and a man has been 

 legally ordered not to work a horse, a veterinarian 

 who advises the owner that the horse may be 

 worked may thereby incur the penalty. That is a 

 question of opinion with the veterinarian, but he 

 lias not the legal authority to decide the question 

 of fact. 



