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bending, and being more exposed to chill, than when the 

 work was slow. The fibrous tissue which forms the 

 white mark left by a scar, does not possess the same 

 degree of elasticity and supj)leness as the uninjured 

 skin. Besides this, when the skin is inflamed, it is but 

 poorly supplied with lubricating fluid from the oil-glands, 

 and is, then, ill calculated to resist the effects of severe 

 and continued bending. 



Crib-hiting. — This habit is regarded, from a legal point 

 of view, as a vice and not as an unsoundness ; as we may 

 see from the case of Scholefield v. Rohh* which was, " on 

 the warranty of a horse * that it was sound and free from 

 vice' . . . The horse was bought to be delivered at a 

 future day, and the case of the plaintiff was, that the 

 horse was a crib-biter and wind-sucker. 



"Parke, B., told the jury, that if they thought the 

 horse, at the time of its being sold, and of the warranty 

 being given, was not a crib-biter, their verdict on both 

 the last issues must be for the defendant ; but, even if 

 the evidence of the plaintiff satisfied them that the 

 horse was a crib-biter at the time of the warranty, such 

 evidence would not, in his opinion, support the allega- 

 tion that it was then unsound, so as to entitle the 

 plaintiff to a verdict on the second plea. To constitute 

 unsoundness there must either be some alteration in the 

 structure of the animal, whereby it is rendered less able 

 * Moody and Robinson's Reports, vol. 1, j). 210. 



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