niErACE. xxiii 



«Tcat diliiciilty frequently arises in proving 

 a warranty. The same diffienlty occults m 

 bartering, or, in the vulgar phrase, chopping 

 one horse tor another ; it being a received 

 (tliough an erroneous) opinion, that that 

 mode of traffic removes all responsibihtj 

 from ]3oth parties. A warranty, howexer, 

 is as good and binchng in chopping a horse, 

 as it is in selling him for mone} , provided 

 tlie w arrant V cr.n be proved, llie most 

 simple and certain mode of obtaining a war- 

 ranty is, to procure a receipt, on a proper 

 stamp, and hi the hand-zcriting of the seller, 

 describing the horse, and warranting him 

 sound. This is evidence wliich cannot err, 

 and which all the ingenuity of the whole 

 legal fraternity together cannot invalidate 

 nor set aside. The form of the receipt may 

 run thus: — 



RECEIVED, on the Bay 



of of Mr. A. B. the sum of Fifty 



Pounds for a baij horse, zcarranted sound 

 and free from vice. 



a D. 



The advantage of obtaining a receipt is 

 manifest also in cases of the followinc: de* 



