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‘time of sale, then warranty or no.warranty, the sale is 
rescinded. | 
If the’ plaintiff recovers less than £20 he must take care to 
ask the Judge for his costs and his witnesses’ expenses. 
A recovery of £20 or over carries costs. 
The plaintiff will learn the day and hour of hearing from 
the officers at the Court when he goes to enter his case. 
The defendant may try to get out of it by declaring that 
the horse was sound and free from vice at the time of sale. 
' Again, he may deny warranty, and will be most likely todo’ 
so when no written warranty has been given. 
Or he may put questions to the plaintiff before the Court. 
If the sum be over £20, either party has a right to put 
questions to the other before the Court. Should defendant 
employ a solicitor the plaintiff need not expect extra danger 
or embatrassment provided he keep his temper and be not 
too anxious. 
Finally, the plaintiff ought to bear in mind that after he 
and his witnesses have told the Court their version of the 
affair, they will be followed by the defendant and his wit- 
nesses. This ought to be ever present in the mind of the 
plaintiff, so that he and his witnesses may give-evidence of 
the time, place, and circumstance of everything having the 
least bearing on the case. 
VIII. TRIAL AT ASSIZES. 
Subpoenas, Fact, Opinion. 
It need hardly be observed that every witness is bound 
to obey a subpoena, when with it his reasonable ex- 
penses for the journey, etc., are tendered to him, but 
he is not bound to attend at the trial except upon a 
subpeena. There are some questions connected with - 
