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salo had any infirmity which ron»loro(l it less fit 

 for present service. It is not necessary to prove 

 that the disorder sliould lie pennanent and in- 

 cnrahle." So again in K/foii v. Jordan (r), ''any 

 infinnil}- which renders a horse less fit for present 

 use and convenience is unsoundness." 

 French law By a Frcnoli law, passed in 1S;?S, twelve diseases 

 soundness, and dofccts arc enumerated as legally constituting 

 unsoundness, and various enactments were framed 

 for the purpose of protecting persons dealing in 

 horses. This law has, however, not worked well, 

 and the present French Government are under- 

 stood to be preparing a new law on the subject. 

 Xo law that attempts to define fraud will meet all 

 cases. Fraud is too protean to be met by legal 

 enactments of that kind. 

 Kuleasto The rule as to unsoundness, as laid do^^^l in 

 ue.s.s. E/fon V. Jh'Ofjiloi, is so very clear that it is given 



here in full : "If at the time of sale the horse has 

 any disease which either actually does diminish the 

 natiural usefulness of the animal, so as to make 

 him less capable of work of any description, or 

 which in its ordinary progress will diminish the 

 natural usefulness of the animal, ////v is ii>isoitH(/ne.ss; 

 or if the horse lias, cither from diseas(> or accident, 

 imdergone any alt(>ration of s(ni(tun> that cither 



(»•) 1 Storkic, N. V. V. 127. 



