OUTMODED LAW
LINK WITH HIGHWAYMEN More than 200 years" ago many innkeepers in Britain were suspected of being in league with the highwaymen who the a infested the • roads. This nefarious alliance between Dick Turpin and mine host led to the passing of a law .which made the innkeeper liable for the value of goods stolen from guests anywhere on his premises. This Act, it was ruled at Warwick (England) Assizes recently; covers the theft of a car from a hotel car park, and as a result a Nuneaton licensee was ordered to pay £470 and costs. The Brewers’ Society has started a campaign to have the law repealed mentioning that a small hotelkeeper could easily be ruined if the stolen car happened to cost £2OOO. Meantime, I suppose, we may expect to see an amendment to that familiar n °tice posted outside many road-houses. No motor coaches served.” I suppose it will now read, “Motor-coaches—or Rolls Royces.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 37, 23 November 1950, Page 7
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158OUTMODED LAW Ashburton Guardian, Volume 71, Issue 37, 23 November 1950, Page 7
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