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WHAT DISEASES CONSTITUTE UNSOUNDNESS OR VICE. 



Scab. 



Statute of 

 Hen. 8. 



Shivering 



Shying. 



Shying the 

 result of 

 short-sight- 

 edness. 



tion to crack. It occurs both in the fore and hind feet, 

 and indicates a brittleness of the crust, which is sometimes 

 natural, but oftener the consequence of mismanagement or 

 disease, particularly of Fahc Quarter {n) ; and where the 

 horn has grown down whole, but leaves a narrow strip of 

 horn of a different and lighter colour, this indicates that 

 there has been a Sandcracl-, and that a disposition to it may 

 possibly remain (o). Sandcrack is an Uii ■soundness ; but as 

 in the case of a Cm*b {})), if a Horse, without any indica- 

 tion of having previously had the disease, throw out a 

 ScDidcraeJc immediately after sale, it is )io breach of a war- 

 ranty of Sou)idness. 



The Scab is a disease which constitutes a breach of war- 

 ranty of Soundness, and there is a form of declaration in 

 the Liber PlacifaHdi {q), in a case where, in consequence of 

 the existence of such disease, an action was brought on a 

 warranty given at Leeds in 1649. 



By the statute 32 Hen. 8, c. 13, s. 9, intituled " The 

 Bill for the Breed of Horses," no person shall have or 

 put to pasture any Horse, Gelding or Mare infected with 

 Scab or Mange, in any Common or Common Fields, on 

 pain of forfeiting lO.S'., which offence shall be inquirable 

 in the leet, as other common annoyances be, and the for- 

 feiture shall be to the lord of the leet. This statute was, 

 however, repealed by the 19 & 20 Yict. c. 64. 



Shicering is a disease known among the London Dray 

 Horses. The Horse constantly shivers, and frequently 

 cannot lie down ; he is unable to back, and consec^uently 

 can only be used in the team and not in the shafts. This 

 would no doubt be a breach of a warranty of Soundness. 



Shoulder, Bruised. See ante, 101, n. (?'). 



Shying is often the result of cowardice, playfulness or 

 want of work. Shying on coming out of the stable is 

 a habit which proceeds from the remembrance of some 

 ill-usage or hurt, which the animal has received in coming 

 out of the stable, and can rarely or never be cured (;•). 

 When confirmed, it is a bad and dangerous habit, and 

 therefore a Vice. 



Shying sometimes, however, results from defective sight. 

 An unusual convexity in the formation of the cornea of 

 the eye will produce short-sightedness, and if, as is often 



(«) False-quarter, ante, p. 88. 

 (o) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 

 301. 



(p) Curb, ante, p. 85. 



(q) Lib. Plac. 30. 

 (r) Lib. U. K. "The Horse," 

 344. 



