SALE AND WARRANTY, 21 



Laws relating to Sale and Warranty. 



And as the following extract from the " Vete- 

 rinarian," as quoted from the " Law Magazine" 

 for October, 1828, comprises all that I can say 

 upon the subject, I shall insert it as it stands. 



" Lawsuits, it has been justly remarked, origi- 

 nate less frequently in the positive dishonesty 

 and bad faith of the litigants, than in their gross 

 misconception of each other's rights and liabilities. 

 We therefore conceive, that an occasional pur- 

 chaser, would often, by a very slight acquaintance 

 with the first principles of the law of sales and 

 warranties, be not only delivered from much 

 anxiety in negotiating this awfully delicate bar- 

 gain, but he also, in many instances, would escape 

 the misery of being driven to contend for his 

 rights in the dreaded arena of a court of justice. 

 Our observations on warranty shall be preceded 

 by a cursory view of the general contract of sale 

 itself, in the course of which we shall select for 

 our more particular notice, out of the multitude 

 of rules by which this contract is more or less 

 directly governed, a few that are marked by some 

 degree either of difficulty or peculiarity in their 



