...Exeter, where by the custom of those places, if the Horse is the property of the guest, he may take it as his own upon the reasonable appraisement of four of his neighbours (</). But now, by the Innkeepers' Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Viet. But may now c. 38), s. 1, "the landlord,...

...if a man commit a horse to a hostler (innkeeper), and he eat out the price of his head, the hostler may take him as his own, upon the reasonable appraisement of four of his neighbors; which was it seems a custom arising from the abundance of traffic with strangers, that could...