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for the expense of sending him to the knacker. Finally, the ven- 
der is condemned to all the expense of legal proceedings, and the 
fees of the veterinary surgeons. 
When several horses have been bought at the same time, and 
the buyer has given notice that he means them for the same team, 
the seller is bound to take back all, if one of them should prove to 
be unsound ; but where he has not given this notice to the seller, 
he can only return the horse that proves to be unsound. But if 
in this last case the parties cannot agree, on account of several 
horses having been bought in the same lot, the judge shall divide 
the whole sum by the number of horses, and take the quotient as 
the sum to be returned to the purchaser. 
Nassau. 
An edict of the 24th of October 1791, gives the following list of 
redhibitory diseases : — In the horse the different species of VERTIGO, 
IMMOBILITY, GLANDERS, BROKEN-WIND, and EPILEPSY, with a 
warranty of twenty-nine days. In cattle, EPILEPSY, CHRONIC 
DIARRHCEA, and VERTIGO, with a warranty of twenty-nine days. 
In sheep, TURN SICK, with fifteen days ; and SCAB, with twenty- 
nine days of warranty; but only where large flocks of sheep are 
kept. As to goats and swine, they can be returned for those dis- 
eases alone which may have been expressly agreed upon by the 
parties. Declaration of this understanding between the parties 
must be made to the authorities of the place at the time of sale, or 
the sale must be effected in the presence of two witnesses. 
In cases of conventional warranty, the diseases referred to must 
be expressly and clearly enumerated in the contract, the vague ex- 
pression of the seller warranting against all faults being of no avail. 
The vices against which the seller does not warrant the animal or 
animals must be mentioned in the contract. 
The duration of the warranty commences from the time at which 
it was agreed upon. The declaration of the existence of unsound- 
ness ought to be made, before the expiration of the warranty, to the 
mayor or provost of the commune in which the buyer resides ; and 
an examination of the animal must take place before the warranty 
terminates. Of the three veterinary surgeons whose opinion must 
be obtained, one must be nominated by each of the parties, and the 
third by the mayor. The post-mortem examination, if it ever be 
necessary, must take place within twenty-four hours after the death 
of the animal. 
On a declaration by the veterinary surgeons that they are unable 
to decide as to the soundness of a certain animal, twenty-nine days 
shall be added to the duration of the warranty ; and, then, a second 
