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WARRANTY OF THE HORSE. 



WHEN the extensive and widely ramified trade in 

 horses is considered, the prevailing ignorance of 

 the public as to the laws both physical and civil, 

 relating to their soundness or unsoundness, is matter 

 of surprise. 



Many people appear to think that such knowledge is 

 confined to the larger dealers and proprietors, so that, 

 when a private individual though a really bad judge 

 of horse-flesh succeeds in selling, most innocently, a 

 horse that a short time afterwards becomes lame, he 

 immediately acquires the reputation of being "a 

 knowing one " "a deep hand ;" or so forth. 



It is hoped this little work will aid in protecting both 

 jer and seller from useless litigation. It will be my 

 both to free the Warranty from the fallacious 

 urity with which it too often invests the purchaser, 

 d to remove the bugbear terrors that surround the 

 seller and too often prevent his obtaining a proper 

 lue for a horse. From not knowing the extent of 

 Jbilities incurred by the warranty, he is led from 

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