RACING, WAGERS, AND GAMING. 
469 
“ When the whole matter passes in parol, all that has passed 
may sometimes be taken together as forming parcel of the contract, 
though not always, because matter talked of at the commencement 
of a bargain may be excluded by the language used at its termi- 
nation ; but if the contract be in the end reduced to writing, no- 
thing which is not found in the writing can be considered as a part 
of the contract.” — P. 66. 
A great deal more remains to be said on the subject of warranty, 
which the reader of Mr. Oliphant’s excellent digest of the several 
laws respecting it will find under the headings “ warranty,” “ sale 
and warranty by an agent,” “ patent defects,” “ breach of warranty,” 
&c. : after which comes an exposition of the laws as it affects inn- 
keepers, farriers, trainers, and stallion-masters, livery-stable 
keepers, agisters, and the hiring and borrowing horses : this con- 
cluding PART I. of the work. 
PART II treats of the “ WRONGS OCCASIONED BY THE USE OF 
HORSES ;” including “ the criminal and civil liabilities incurred 
through negligent driving, also the rule of the road, and negligent 
driving by a servant,” & c. ; with “ the privileges and liabilities of 
parties in hunting over the lands of another.” 
PART III treats of “ Racing, Wagers, and Gaming;” 
comprising “ their history, rise, and progress in this country ;” 
“ races, stakeholders, and stewards ;” “ betting ;” and “ games and 
gaming-houses ;” ending with an Appendix of “ unreported cases,” 
“ statutes,” & c. 
Such is the comprehensive bill of fare Mr. Oliphant has spread 
before us. And our only wonder is, when we come to review his 
“ table of contents,” how he has contrived to squeeze so much into 
a small octavo volume of no more than 322 pages ; a book a man 
may carry in his coat-pocket without perceiving he has any thing 
of magnitude therein. Excellence of arrangement and conciseness 
of phraseology, no doubt, has done much towards this commend- 
able brevity. At the same time, the author has rendered his 
digest of horse law equal in information and utility to a voluminous 
treatise, by the endless references which are, in notes of some half- 
a-dozen together, set at the foot of almost every page in the book ; 
for which apt and pertinent illustrations Mr. Oliphant must, one 
would think, have ransacked all the law libraries in the kingdom. 
No veterinarian will be able to tolerate his library without this 
book ; neither will any turf-man, betting-man, horse-dealer, 
stable-keeper, or in fact any other description of horse-man, be able 
to get on in business in the absence of it. And moreover, when 
the question of soundness comes to be settled amongst us vete- 
rinarians, which before very long we hope and trust will be the 
case, the present treatise, we feel no hesitation in saying, by amal- 
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