262 WARRANTING. 



1st. If you sell a horse to-day that either has 

 a slight cold on him, or catches one during the 

 time of sale, and that cold, from improper ma- 

 nagement or neglect, degenerates into a chronic 

 cough, the purchaser may, perhaps, declare 

 he had a chronic cough on him at the time of 

 sale, and bring evidence to prove the horse 

 coughed the minute he came out of your hands, 

 and has coughed every day since : if warranted, 

 in law you might be liable, and have to take 

 him back. 



2nd. If you sell a horse, that should die 

 two months afterwards of chronic diseased 

 lungs, and a veterinary surgeon was to declare, 

 from appearances on dissection, that the horse 

 must have been diseased for a period of three 

 months, and, consequently, must have been so 

 at the time of selling: if warranted, in law 

 you might be liable, and have to refund the 

 money. 



3rd. If you sell a horse that, four or ^ye 

 months previously, had put out his hip, strained 

 his shoulder or back sinews, or had been lame 

 from navicular disease ; and a fortnight or so 

 after purchase, he again puts out his hip, strains 

 his shoulder, or back sinews, or becomes lame 

 again from navicular disease : if warranted, in 



