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GLANDERS. 
thereof by such clerk ; and in default of his producing the same 
if the horse should be proved to have been stolen, a justice of the 
peace shall be empowered to order the restoration of the animal.” 
The penalty for not complying with the above regulations is £5. 
Mr. May said that none of these regulations were observed 
at horse fairs, and that no registers were now kept. The magis¬ 
trates replied, that though the custom might be obsolete, the 
law was still in force. 
Evening Mail, 7th Sept. 1835. 
Glanders. 
Allen V. P or teas. 
This was an attempt to recover the price of a glandered horse, 
according to the prevalent opinion that such horses are unsale¬ 
able, unless it is distinctly stated that they are glandered when 
sold. 
The complainer applied to defender for a cheap serviceable 
horse, and was supplied with one said to be so, but only a little 
short in the wind. Upon trial, the complainer found the horse 
a serviceable one, but making a noise through his nostrils, which 
he supposed to be the short wind spoken of. Relying upon the 
honesty of the seller, he paid him the price demanded, viz. five 
pounds. 
In a few*days afterwards the horse became unwell. A veteri¬ 
nary surgeon was called in, who stated that the animal was 
rapidly sinking from glanders, and that the purchaser had been 
imposed upon, as what he imagined to be broken wind was the 
noise produced by partial obstruction of the air passages from 
ulceration. 
Upon hearing this, the complainer immediately sent back the 
horse to defender, stating the deception, and demanding the re¬ 
turn of the money: but the distance which the horse had to 
travel being considerable, the animal became exhausted, and fell 
and died upon the road, only a few yards from his former home. 
This statement of the case was, however, delivered by the 
person in charge to defender, who refused to return the money; 
and an action was now brought against the defender, before the 
Sheriff of the Small Debt Court, for the recovery of the value. 
The defender, of course, denied that the horse was glandered 
when in his possession, and offered to prove so by his servants, 
but no proof was brought forward. He admitted that the horse 
was a little wrong in the wind. 
