42 WARRANTY. 



The warranty is generally included in the 

 receipt for the purchase money, and should run 

 thus : 



" Glasgow, August 9d, 1833. 

 Received from A. B. the sum of thirty 

 pounds sterling for a Bay Gelding, warranted 

 Sound and free from Vice. 



£30. C. D." 



The animal's temper and abilities may also be 

 included, if the purchaser thinks proper. As 

 '* warranted sound, free from vice, quiet to ride 

 and drive, and a good leaper." Vice should 

 always be included, for a vicious horse is often 

 a worse bargain than an unsound one. And as 

 there is little probability of vice being discovered 

 by the purchaser prior to sale, unless a trial be 

 obtained and opportunity afforded of displaying 

 it, it is so much the more necessary that it should 

 be guarded against by the warranty. 



A qualified warranty is one, in which the horse 

 is warranted sound, with the exception of some- 

 thing pointed out at the time of sale, and men- 

 tioned in the warranty : as for instance, " war- 

 ranted sound, excepting some tenderness of the 

 off fore foot." In this case, the horse cannot 

 be returned, though the lameness should turn 



