Next to buying a good horse, there are few 

 things more difficult than buying good law ; but 

 the greatest problem with which a plain man can 

 puzzle his brains is to make law, whether good, 

 bad, or indifferent, intelligible to an every-day 

 reader. I have spent more time on the considera- 

 tion of this chapter than of all the rest of my work 

 put together ; and though a lawyer by profession, 

 and a jockey by taste, I confess that 1 entertain 

 great doubts whether, even if I understand myself, 

 I shall make myself intelligible to others : how- 

 ever, it is bad policy to be craning over the hedge 

 before you leap, so " have at it !" 



Of course, there are many points in which horse- 

 deahng does not differ from any other buying and 

 selling transaction ; it is governed by the same 

 general rules as all trade in goods and chattels ; 

 and some of the cases to which I hereafter refer 



