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in his actual possession, for he sold part of it to 

 another person." 



The strictness with which the courts treat the 

 question of delivery, may be gathered from the fol- 

 lowing case : 



Hodgson V. Le Bret, 1 Campbell, 233.—" If the 

 purchaser of goods, at the time of sale, write his 

 name upon a particular article, with intent to denote 

 that he has purchased it, and to appropriate it to his 

 own use, this is enough to take the sale, as to the 

 article written upon, out of the statute of frauds ; 

 but not as to other articles bought at the same 

 time." 



It should be observed here that the articles were 

 at separate prices ; and I infer from this that each 

 purchase Avas viewed as a separate transaction: 

 the report of the case confirms this inference ; if, 

 therefore, a seller sells the horse and all his furni- 

 ture /(9r one sum, and delivers the bridle, or saddle, 

 or even the halter, though he retains the horse, this 

 would be a delivery within the statute ; or to put a 

 more common case : if the purchaser were even to 

 exchange the saddle on his own horse, and ride 

 away upon the saddle which he had purchased as a 



