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search, not of a hunter, but a hack. Hence it 

 being for the interest of every dealer to describe 

 the capabilities of his horse correctly, all litigation 

 on that score, or all returns from mere caprice or 

 unfitness, are likely to be avoided. The other 

 source of dispute, unsoundness, can be detected 

 much sooner than the incapacity of a horse, 

 where it really exists. It is therefore proposed 

 by the Registry Office, to limit the warranty of 

 soundness in every case to four days; this principle 

 is only partially adopted at Tattersall's, the Bazaar, 

 and other places of public sale. Though the war- 

 ranty is there limited to four or five days, the limit 

 is only by an undertaking that for that interval, the 

 money shall be retained by the auctioneer or agent. 

 The warranty still remains, and may be enforced 

 by the buyer for weeks or months afterwards : thus 

 the seller is never safe. But the principle of the 

 Registry is that the warranty itself shall cease 

 and be utterly void after the stipulated interval, 

 and that then the horse shall be retained with 

 all fauitSo 



That this is a convenient arrangement to the 

 seller, is too clear to require demonstration; but 

 in fact it is not less so to the purchaser ; for it will 

 aftord him a fair and reasonable time for putting 

 soundness to the proof; and if on the one hand, it 



