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to that part of the following pages which 

 treats of warranty, you will find that it 

 is not unworthy of legal attention upon a 

 difficult and insulated subject of frequent 

 occurrence at Wist Prius. I have endea- 

 voured to introduce every case that is re- 

 ported, directly or indirectly bearing upon 

 the topic of horse-dealing, and to deduce 

 from them, as far as it is possible to do so 

 from very conflicting authorities, a clear 

 impression of the existing law. If I have 

 succeeded in this novel attempt, notwith- 

 standing the quaint dress in which my law 

 appears, and which is perhaps best cal- 

 culated to obtain the notice of that class 

 of society to w^hich the subject is most 

 important, I shall enjoy the satisfaction of 

 partially relieving the courts from a mass 

 of litigation peculiarly painful to good 

 feeling, on account of the perjury that it 

 always involves. 



Nor will it be a less gratification to me 

 to feel, that if I thus succeed in somewhat 

 purifying the atmosphere of Westminster 



