or Pl'RCHASK AND SAI,K, KTP. 



83 



The passage printed in italics, is not so em- 

 pliasi/cd in the original, but is so very strong that 

 tlie reader's attention is specially directed to it. 

 Assuming suoli ruling to ho law, the same principle 

 would apply to liorse dealing, as to buying sassafras 

 wood ; and if a horse dealer takes a warranty — 

 that is, an express imdertaking from the seller as 

 to the quality of the horso he is buying — he is not 

 bound to exercise his skill to detect any fault or 

 defect in the animal, however manifest or ^dsible 

 it may be to him from the very nature of his trade 

 and the constant exercise of his calling, lie will 

 be on the same footing as any other purchaser, 

 however ignorant of horseflesh. 



It is partly this state of the law, and partly the 

 unsatisfactory manner in which jiuies have decided 

 horse cases, which have occasioned the complaints 

 against warranty, and which are to be found given 

 expression to in the Appendix to the Iveport of 

 the Committee before alluded to. 



In 1873, a Committee of the House of Lords, House of 

 with Lord Rosebory as chairman, took a great committee 

 deal of evidence respecting the scarcity and breed- 1873.°'^'^''' 

 ing of horses, and other matters in connection with 

 the subject. Ilis Royal Highness the Prince of 

 Wales attended the committee, and altogether the 

 members of it Avere better qualified to inquire into 

 the subject than any other number of gentlemen. 

 The evidence given was very valuable, and in their 

 report the committee say : — '* As regards war- 

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