PREFACE 



TO THE SECOND EDITION. 



The ease of the Sale of a Horse Is often chosen by our 

 Judges as a favourite and popular mode of illustrating 

 their views in numerous cases coming before them with 

 respect to the Bargain and Sale of Chattels. It is here 

 intended that the Law relating to Horses should be used 

 for a similar purpose ; because nearly the same incidents 

 which affect the Bargain and Sale of Horses also affect 

 the Bargain and Sale of other Chattels, including manu- 

 factured Goods, Carriages, Pictures and Works of Art, 



An attempt has been made to arrange, in a logical and 

 concise manner, the subjects hereafter discussed, and to 

 reduce to a regular System the various principles which 

 are found to be involved. 



Grreat care has been taken to keep out all matter which 

 might tend to encumber the Book, but the most ample 

 references are given. 



During the last few years there have been numerous 

 decisions with respect to the Bargain and Sale of Chattels, 

 and the other subjects here treated of. It will also bo 

 seen that great changes have recently been made in the 

 Law of Pleading and Evidence; and that the Law of 

 Wagers has been most materially affected by the " Act for 

 the suppression of Betting Houses." 



a. H. H. 0. 



1, New Court, Temple, 

 Dec. 20111, 1853. 



