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ceivc, the warranty should end, unless it is proved 

 the certificate or representation was false. No 

 veterinary surgeon could, or would, give an 

 enofae-ement that a horse shall or will remain 

 sound. Yet we expect the seller to do this. Ke- 

 quiring this is unfair, and, in fact, absurd. 



Supposing any one to be hardy enough to give 

 one of the usual warranties, I would most strongly 

 recommend any gentleman, or any respectable 

 man, to insist on the animal being examined by 

 a knovv^n first-rate professional man, prior to its 

 being delivered to the buyer. If passed sound, it 

 would cost the seller nothing; and to the buyer, if 

 he can judge of a horse's value to the precise sum 

 of ten and sixpence, it is more than I ever could, 

 even supposing him to be a twenty pound hack. 

 This would, in case of any thing going wrong, be 

 a host in the seller's favour, and save a great deal 

 of defending and proving, in case legal measures 

 should take place ; and would certainly have 

 great weight as to the intent of the seller ; and 

 further, on the horse being again shown to the 

 veterinarian, who examined him at the time, he 

 would decide whether it was a recent ailment, or 

 arose from some former one of which he had 

 detected any symptoms of having formerly ex- 

 isted. The takln2^ somethino; like such a G:ua- 

 rantee as I have specified gives us a positive hold 

 on the seller. His horse could not have been seri- 



