TITLE II. 

 TRANSFER OF PROPERTY. 



CHAPTER I. 



SALE AND MORTGAGE. 



23. What may be sold. 32. What does not amount to a 



24. Change of possession. warranty. 



25. Animals running on the range. 33. What constitutes unsoundness, 



26. Validity; damages. etc. 



27. General nature of a warranty; 34. Specific forms of unsoundness. 



patent defects, etc. 85- Return on breach of warranty. 



28. Animals bought for a special 36. Damages on breach. 



purpose, as breeding, etc. ZT- Mortgage of animals and their 



29. Sale for food. increase. 



30. Warranty by a servant or agent. 38. Priority of the mortgage lien. 



31. What amounts to a warranty. 



23. What may be Sold — It is not proposed here to enter into 

 an exhaustive investigation of the principles of the law of 

 Sale and Mortgage. Animals are personal property and 

 subject to all the laws governing such property. A great 

 majority of the cases that would fall naturally under the pres- 

 ent head relate not to animals as such but to property in gen- 

 eral. These accordingly will not be considered here, but our 

 attention will be confined to those cases where some feature 

 peculiar to property in animals is made the very ground of 

 decision. 



All animals that are subjects of property may be bought and 

 sold like other kinds of property, and the same is true of their 

 increase and produce. The subject of the sale of the increase of 



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