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dray-horse of from 17 to 18 hands high. There are seven 



modifications of the horse type, at present existing, sufficiently 



distinct to be reckoned as species by all zoologists. There 



were in the United States at the close of the year 1893 



16,081,139 horses of all ages, valued at $709,224,799. The 



four leading horse producing states are : Iowa, with 1,367,329 ; 



Illinois, with 1,308,771; Texas, with 1,183,895; Missouri, 



with 1,008,361. Aside from the recognized trotting bred and 



running bred horses in this country the generally recognized 



breeds or sub-families are : Clydesdale, Percheron, French 



Coach, Yorkshire Coach, Cleveland Bay, English Shire, 



Suffolk Punch, Hackney. 



In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself .—G. J. 

 Wliyte-Melville. 



Horse. [Law.] The legal definition of a horse is : A 

 hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus, (E. caballus), having 

 one toe to each foot, a mane, and a long flowing tail. The 

 term horse embraces generally all the classes and sexes. It has 

 been decided that a ridgiing is not a gelding, but a horse. — 

 Chattel Mortgage. It has been decided that a colt born of a 

 mare which is held under mortgage belongs to the holder of the 

 legal title, the mortgagee ; but to make a chattel mortgage good 

 to hold the colt he must show that it was conceived prior to the 

 date of his mortgage. — Exemptiom. The exemption of a horse 

 from execution under the exemption act in Texas, includes 

 everything absolutely essential to its beneficial enjoyment, as 

 bridle, saddle and martingale. It has been held that a horse 

 standing at a farrier's to be shod, is exempt from distress on 

 the plea of public utility. — Leaving at an Inn. The tendency 

 of modern cases, says the American and English Encyclopedia 

 of Law, xi, 23, (1890), is to hold that merely leaving a horse 

 at an inn cannot of itself suflice to constitute one a guest, 

 though, according to the earlier cases, and others which have 

 followed their views, it is not essential, in order to constitute 

 one a guest, in legal contemplation, that he should receive per- 

 sonal entertainment at the inn ; but it may be enough that he 

 leave his horse, particularly if he be a traveler in the strict 

 sense. The older doctrine that the mere leaving a horse at an 

 inn may constitute the owner a guest, is supported in the lead- 

 ing American case in which this view is taken, by an early 

 English decision, recognizing, by a divided court, the lien of an 

 inn keeper in regard to a horse left at his stable by a traveler 

 who did not himself put up at the inn, and is fm'ther sustained 

 by judicial declarations and statements of legal writers. It 

 also receives qualified support in this country from a modern 

 leading case, where the point does not seem to be directly 



