APPENDIX. 



I. UNSOUNDNESS. 



Legal Interpretation of the Term. 



" If at the time of sale the horse has any dkease which 

 either actually does dimmish the natural usefulness of the 

 animal, so as to make him less capable of work of any 

 description, or which in its ordinary progress will dimijiish 

 the natural usefulness of the animal, this is unsoundness ; 

 or if the horse has, either from disease or qccident, undergone 

 any alteration of stmctiire that either actually does at the 

 time or in its ordinary effects will diminish the natural 

 usefulness of the horse, such a horse is unsound." (Lord 

 Ellenborough in the case of Elton v. Brogden, 4 Camp. 

 281.) 



11. VICE. 



. DEFiNlTltDN. — A horse is said to be vicious which has a 

 habit dangerous to itself or to those who have the usual 

 dealings with it ; or any habit which either does or may 

 render the horse itself less useful. 



Examples : — Rearing, running away, kicking, restiveness, 

 weaving, cribbing, wind-sucking, etc., etc. 



