my labours, to be consulted professionally 

 on a question of warranty. I ransacked 

 my law library, I groped through my 

 reports, I catechized my pleader, and finally 

 I advised my client ; and I believe that he 

 left my office almost as wise as he came. 

 It was not my fault — I had law of all kinds 

 for him ; there were works on landlord 

 and tenant, works on principal and agent, 

 works on libel, on shipping, on pleading, 

 on powers, on every subject under heaven, 

 cmn quibusdam aliis, with the single excep- 

 tion of horse-dealing warranty !* It was a 



* Had I been aware of it when my first edition was published, 

 I should have made an exception to this sweeping remark. An 

 anonymous work was published in 1825 by Clarke, of Portugal 

 Street. It is strictly of a professional character, and not very 

 accurate ; but I have derived some useful hints from it, and a 

 knowledge of some cases which had escaped my previous re- 

 searches. It is entitled " The Laws relating to Horses." It does 

 not appear to have reached a second edition, nor is it to be found 

 in the law catalogues : hence it had escaped my notice ; but 

 after all, it was published ten years ago, and new law is almost as 

 valuable now, as Coke upon Littleton was then ! 



While I thus acquit myself of all intentional injustice to this 

 anonymous writer, I must at the same time, in fairness to my 



