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llOUSF, WAUUANTY. 



regard lo warrandice, by cases it is seen that it is 



Law in not ncccssary Ly the law of Scotland that a horso 



to war- should 1)0 Warranted sound at the period of sale, 



""**^'- as is generally thought, to entitle the buyer to 



return it should it prove unfit for the purpose for 



which it is sold 13y the law of 



both Scotland and England, the buyer of a sub- 

 ject, sold witli all faults, has no right to question 

 the sale when ho has not been drawn into it by 

 fraud." 



We now come to consider what is meant by tho 

 Mcauingof tcHU soiinil, as applied to a horse. A sound horso 

 when ap- then really is a horse in perfect health, Avith perfect 

 u horse! action or motion in all its limbs and organs. It 

 maybe said there is not such a horse ; not exactly 

 80, perhaps, but suflieiently to answer the piuiioses 

 for which horses are required. A veterinary sui*- 

 geon has remarked that there is no such thing as 

 a sound liorse. If by this is meant a perfect 

 horse, it is very neai* tho truth. If a person who 

 knows aiiytliiiig of the action of horses will watch 

 tho cari'iages in llydo l*ark in the season — where, 

 perhaps, tho finest horses in the world ai'o con- 

 gregated — ho will bo suqirised to find how many 

 step shoi-t, or are in some way faulty in that exact 

 and perfect motion wliich nuiy be called sound 

 action. Tho term "perfect action" is used because 

 that is, so far as soundness in moving is con- 

 cerned, tho legal definition of that word; but a 

 horse may have sound action, and yet not bo 



