Livery Stable
Defined in 4 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914), Kinney (1893), Anderson (1889)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A place where horses and vehicles are kept to be let to the public. See 30 La. Ann. 1095. Though some other related business may be carried on, as the boarding of horses for hire, the keeper of the stable is, as to such,
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A place where horses are groomed, fed, and hired, and where vehicles are let. Williams v. Garlgnes, 30 La. Ann. 1095. A liveryman who lets a horse does not warrant that it is free from defects which he does not know of, and could not have discovered by the exercise of due care; and where a person is injured through such defects, the liveryman is not liable; Copeland v. Draper, 157 Mass. 558, 32 N. E. 944, 19
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
A place where horses and vehicles are kept for hire, and horses are fed, groomed, etc., for compensation. Lirery-stablft keeper: a person whose business is the keeping of such a stable.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
A place where horses are groomed, fed, and hired, and where vehicles are let.' Live'ry-statale keeper. One whose business is to Jieep horses for hire, or to let, keep, feed, or board, horses for others. i" A livery-man is bound to keep safe horses, or fully » Kendall v. Miller, 47 How. Pr. 449 (1874). 'Picot v. Armistead, 2Ired. Eq. 230 (1843). s Eeiche v. Smythe, 7 Blatch. 235 (1870). ' The Matilda Lewis, 5 Blatch. 583 (1867). ^ F. livrie, a thing delivered, a delivery. » [2 Bl. Com. 68. ' [2 Bl. Com. 313-16; 2 Utah, 45. 8 Efanger v. Lewis, 32 Pa. 370 (1859). disclose the character of the horse to the driver at the time of letting him.' A person who hires a public hack and gives the driver directions as to the place to which he wishes to be conveyed, but exercises no other control over him. is not responsible for his negligence, nor prevented from recovering from a railroad company for injuries suffered from a collision of its train with the hack, caused by the negligence of both the managers of the train and the driver.^ See Bailment; Condition; Nuisance.,