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Tattersall. I have sent horses there four times in a 

 season, but I have been unable to obtain a stall for 

 them under a fortnight's notice. This argues much 

 for their celebrity, but very little for convenient ac- 

 commodation. Mr. Tattersall's days of sale are 

 Mondays, and in the height of the season, sales are 

 occasionally held on Thursdays also ; at Morris's, 

 now Allen's, Wednesday. It will be convenient to 

 my readers to subjoin the conditions of sale adopted 

 at these and other similar establishments. They 

 will be found in the Appendix. The seller, however, 

 will bear in mind that, whatever may be the practice 

 of the place, a purchaser (unless at auction) will not 

 be bound by these special conditions, unless they are 

 introduced, or specially referred to in the warranty, 

 or note of sale ; but see the case of Bywater v. Rich- 

 ardson, 1 Adolphus and Ellis, 508, already quoted. 



If his receipt merely contains the words, "war- 

 ranted sound," the purchaser is entitled at any time 

 to proceed on the warranty, for disease or incapaci- 

 tating defects existing at the time of sale. A seller, 

 therefore, who wishes to avail himself of the protec- 

 tion thus afforded, must be careful to add to his 

 receipt the words, " to be returned, if unsound, with- 



