KinilTS AND MARILlTir.S OF INNKKErKKS, ETC. 97 



to funiisli LoJs and lodgings for tho niglif, is not 

 a common innkeeper (/>). Every man who opens 

 an inn and professes to exercise the business of a 

 common innkeeper is, by tlie custom of tlie realm, 

 bound to afford such plieller and refreslmient as 

 ho possesses to all travellers (r), and moreover, to 

 receive and provide for the horses of all travellers 

 who alight at his inn, if ho has room in his 

 stables {(/). 



The law relating to the general rights and lia- 

 bilities of that class of tradesmen is now governed 

 to a great extent by a statute passed in 18G3, innkeepers 

 "respecting the liability of innkeepers, and to ^ict.'c.4i. 

 prevent frauds on them" (2G & 27 Vict. c. 41) ; 

 but this act, while it saves them from liability to 

 make good " any loss of or injury to a greater 

 amount than 30/. to goods or property brought to 

 their inns," excepting in certain cases specially 

 provided, exempts a Jtonc or other live anii/ia/, or 

 any gear appertaining thereto, or any carriage. 

 The law, therefore, so far as regards horses and 

 carriages left at an inn, is much as it was before 

 the passing of that act, and its general bearing 

 may be gathered from Cahje's case (Smith's Lead- 

 ing Cases, Vol. I.). 



{b) Doe V. Lamm'uig, 4 Camp. 77. 



(c) Robinson v. Walter, 3 Buls. 270 ; Taylor v. Jlicwplirajs, 30 

 L. J., M. C. 242; Cojylci/ v. Burton, L. R., 5 C. P. 489. 

 {d) Saunders v. Tlummer, Orl. Bridg. 227. 

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