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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WARRANTY 
EXPRESS AND IMPLIED. 
By Mr. John McLean, V.S., Jedburgh. 
I sen Da short narrative of a case. Should it prove acceptable, 
I may, perhaps, be able to follow it up with some more on the 
same mysterious subject — veterinary jurisprudence. 
On the 3d November, 1841, I was called on to make a post- 
mortem examination of a well-bred short-horned quev that had 
been dead thirty-six hours. 
I first opened the cavity of the abdomen. The bowels were 
healthy, and contained very little ingesta. On dividing the car- 
tilages that connect the ribs with the sternum on both sides, 
and raising it up* there was an old standing adhesion between 
the pleura costalis and pulmonalis on the left side, and there 
seemed to be more development than was usual in the region of 
the heart. There was no effusion into the chest, and the sub- 
stance of the lungs was healthy. 
On extracting the heart and lungs, and cutting into the peri- 
cardium, a quantity of yellow serosity escaped. The heart was 
very much enlarged, and fully twice its ordinary size. On 
opening its cavities, a large tumour was seen floating loosely in 
the left ventricle — being attached to and principally entering 
into the substance of the mitral-valve. This was all that pre- 
vented the regurgitation of the blood from the left ventricle to 
the auricle, and which must have taken place to a great extent. 
In short, here lay the disease which gave rise to the anomalous 
symptoms the animal was said to have exhibited before death, 
and here was the very causa mortis. 
On inquiry into the history of the case, I learned that the 
quey had been bought by Mr. Cunningham from a farmer in 
Northumberland, to go to the Highlands as a breeder, and, on 
being examined previous to her departure for her destination, she 
was found by a veterinary surgeon to be labouring under chronic 
disease. 
Mr. Cunningham had to take her back, and wished the first 
seller to do the same, but he objected, and, as no warranty of 
soundness had been given, he could not be compelled. 
Now, what I would beg to call the attention of the reader to 
is, that, had the first sale taken place in Scotland, a warranty 
