PREFACE 



TO THE THIRD EDITION. 



In preparing a new Edition of Mr. Oliphant's valuable 

 Treatise on tlie Law of Horses, it has been the endeavour 

 of the present Editor to amalgamate with the text of the 

 preceding Edition such new matter as the growth of legal 

 science during a period of eleven years has supplied, with- 

 out disturbing the symmetry or impairing the method of 

 the original Work. 



It has been found necessary indeed to make considerable 

 additions to the text, for there are few subjects upon 

 which the law is long silent. But the alterations have been 

 few, inasmuch as the opinions expressed by Mr. Oliphant 

 have, in almost every instance, been confirmed by sub- 

 sequent decisions ; those, therefore, which have been made, 

 have been rendered necessary, for the most part, by legis- 

 lative enactment, as, for instance, by the Common Law 

 Procedui'e Acts of 185i and 1860, by the Railway and 

 Canal Traffic Act of 1854, and by the Act for the Sup- 

 pression of Graming Houses of the same year. 



The present Editor has had access to the notes and 

 references made by the Author during the earlier part of 

 the period which has elapsed since the publication of . the 

 Second Edition, and must make due acknowledgment for 

 the assistance thence derived. 



