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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
in one; but in every department of the College, I am ready to 
admit. 
“ Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see. 
Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be. 
But, if the means be just, the conduct true. 
Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.” 
But T do dislike to hear assertions made which have no object 
of reform in view, but are put forth merely for the purpose of 
misrepresentation. 
I am assured that the Editors will allow these remarks a place 
in their valuable Journal. 
Thomas Walton Mayer, V.S.. 
London, February 13, 1835. 
[Mr. Mayer has come forward in a manly and honourable way. 
To the plea of “ truth and justice’’ the pages of The Veteri¬ 
narian will never be closed ; but all future communications on 
this, and on every other controversial subject, must bear the 
name of the writer.— Edit.] 
Hiring Horses, and Accidents occurring during 
the Period of Hiring. 
We have had opportunity of putting our readers in pos¬ 
session of the way in which legal questions on these, and other 
horse and veterinary matters, are disposed of in Scotland ; and 
we are now enabled, by laying before them the following docu¬ 
ments, to shew how the same things are manao;ed in France. 
Two horses were hired at Paris on the 6th of June 1833, and 
taken into the country. On the 29th of August following one 
of them broke the leg of the other. A veterinary surgeon, at 
the requisition of the mayor of the place, examined the injured 
horse, and ordered him to be destroyed in the absence of the 
owner. Afterwards a suit arose between the parties. It was 
carried before the Tribunal of the first instance of the Depart¬ 
ment of the Seine, which, before it pronounced its judgment, 
nominated, as was the custom in these cases, an expert veterinary 
surgeon, and charged him to report— 
What was the usual mode of hiring ? 
Whether the hirer was liable for the accident ? 
And, if so, what was the value of the horse that was de- 
? 
Bouley, jun., was appointed to examine into and report 
on these questions. The following is the report which he sent 
to the Tribunal:— 
stroyed 
M. ; 
