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and prevent unfair preponderation in favour 

 of either buyer or seller ; I returned the mare 

 to the owner without exposing her to sale, 

 with an invariable determination, never to sell 

 a horse of even ten pounds value, where 

 the purchaser may not only possess the privi- 

 lege, but sufficient time, to render him a com- 

 plete cripple by hard riding or bad manage- 

 ment, leaving me no consolation but my own 

 acquiescence and extreme folly for repent- 

 ance. 



Taking into consideration the very tedious 

 and expensive litigations that have been car- 

 ried on in our courts of law, upon the subject 

 of horses ^xoYinguusound some time after sale 

 and delivery, I think it necessary (after pro- 

 per reference to the definition of the word 

 *^ SOUND," in the early part of the former 

 volume) to introduce my own method of dis- 

 posal, where I conceive the horse to be per- 

 fectly healthy and entirely sound at the mp^ 

 jnent of delivery, 



A learned peer upon one bench may, un- 

 der sanction of an eminent situation, and the 

 advantage of coining a new Imv to answer 



