12 SOUNDNESS IN HOKSES. 



admitted of so doing, I venture to think that the better 

 plan would be, for the veterinary surgeon to state, if so 

 required, in his certificate, that the animal was unsound, 

 solely on account of the defect in question. If the 

 intending purchaser was then willing to take the horse, 

 provided that he was guarded against any ill consequences 

 resulting from this particular defect, he might accept a 

 special warranty, to that effect, from the owner. 



Vices, even those injurious to health, such as, crib- 

 biting and wind-sucking, are held in law to be no breach 

 of a warranty of soundness; unless they have actually 

 produced in the animal in question, disease, or alteration 

 of structure (see Baron Parke's ruling in Scliolejield v. 

 Bobl, p. 85). 



Blemishes are not unsoundness ; unless they diminish, 

 or are likely to diminish, the animal's usefulness, from a 

 working point of view. 



