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HORSE-DEALING. 



ANTIQUITY OF THE TRAFFIC IN HORSES ' CAVEAT EMP- 

 TOR' WARRANTY SAFEST PRECAUTION FOR GENE- 

 RAL PURCHASERS — GENERAL AND QUALIFIED WAR- 

 RANTY RE-SALE BY A PURCHASER WITH A WAR- 

 RANTY SOUNDNESS AND UNSOUNDNESS SEAT OF 



DISEASES DEALING ON A SUNDAY SELLING BY SER- 

 VANTS FRAUD HORSE-DEALERS. 



A TRAFFIC in horses must have been carried on 

 in very early times, for we read in the 27th chap- 

 ter of Ezekiel, that " they of the house of Togar- 

 mah traded in the fairs of Tyrus with horses and 

 mules/' Neither is it a little remarkable that no less 

 a personage than Solomon himself should have dealt 

 largely in horses, having them brought from Egypt 

 and other countries in strings, and selling them 

 again, at a great profit, to the neighbouring kings. 

 He was likewise a great breeder of these animals, 



