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INNKEEPERS ACT 1878 - SECT 1

Landlord, &c. may dispose of goods left with him after six weeks.

1. The landlord, proprietor, keeper, or manager of any hotel, inn, or licensed
public-house shall, in addition to his ordinary lien, have the right
absolutely to sell and dispose by public auction of any goods, chattels,
carriages, horses, wares, or merchandise which may have been deposited with
him or left in the house he keeps, or in the coach-house, stable, stable-yard
or other premises appurtenant or belonging thereunto, where the person
depositing or leaving such goods, chattels, carriages, horses, wares, or
merchandise shall be or become indebted to the said innkeeper either for any
board or lodging or for the keep and expenses of any horse or other animals
left with or standing at livery in the stables or fields occupied by such
innkeeper.

Provided, that no such sale shall be made until after the said goods and
chattels, carriages, horses, wares, or merchandise shall have been for the
space of six weeks in such charge or custody or in or upon such premises
without such debt having been paid or satisfied, and that such innkeeper,
after having, out of the proceeds of such sale, paid himself the amount of any
such debt, together with the costs and expenses of such sale, shall on demand
pay to the person depositing or leaving any such goods, chattels, carriages,
horses, wares, or merchandise the surplus (if any) remaining after such sale:
Provided further, that the debt for the payment of which a sale is made shall
not be any other or greater debt than the debt for which the goods or other
articles could have been retained by the innkeeper under his lien.

Provided also, that at least one month before any such sale the landlord,
proprietor, keeper, or manager shall cause to be inserted in one London
newspaper and one country newspaper circulating in the district where such
goods, chattels, carriages, horses, wares, or merchandise, or some of them,
shall have been deposited or left, an advertisement containing notice of such
intended sale, and giving shortly a description of the goods and chattels
intended to be sold, together with the name of the owner or person who
deposited or left the same where known.

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