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and prevent unfair preponderation in favour 

 of either buyer or feller ; I returned the mare 

 to the owner without expofing her to fale, 

 with an invariable determination, never to fell 

 a horfe of even ten pounds value, where 

 the purchafer may not only poffefs the privi- 

 lege, but fujjicient time to render him a com- 

 plete cripple, by hard riding or bad manage- 

 ment, leaving me no confolation but my own 

 acquiefcence and extreme folly for repen- 

 tance. 



Taking into confideratbn the very tedious 

 and expenfive litigations that have been car- 

 ried on in our courts of law, upon the fubjed: 

 of horfes proving unfoiuid fome time after 

 fale and delivery, I think it neceffary (after 

 proper reference to the definition to the word 

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

 volume) to introduce my own method of dif- 

 pofal, where i conceive the horfe to be per- 

 fectly healthy and entirely found at the mo- 

 ment of delivery. 



A learned Peer upon one bench may, un- 

 der fanftion of an eminent fituation, and the 

 advantage of coining a new law to anfwer 



every 



