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VETERINARY JURISPRUDENCE. 
Charles Mavor.—I am a veterinary surgeon. The principal danger I should ap¬ 
prehend from a case of this kind would be that of lock-jaw. The bone might appear, 
after death, to have been injured, although it had not been punctured. 
Lord Denman left it to the Jury to say, whether there was a warranty sufficient to 
cover this accident; and if so, whether there was any doubt that the horse was un¬ 
sound at the time of the sale. 
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. 
[We consider this to be a very important and a just decision. 
It meets the case which we have Ions; wanted some one or 
other to take up,—the recklessness and cruelty with which the 
dealers’ horses are hurried from the country fair to the metro¬ 
politan market. There was a great deal too much of this in 
the case of Sheward v. Witham, recorded in our last volume, 
p. 165. That, and that alone, lost the plaintiff his trial. The 
plaintiff was justly defeated on the same ground here. The 
horse was destroyed, not by any inflammation necessarily set 
up by the wound in the foot, but by the recklessness and 
cruelty—we cannot use better terms—with which he was 
goaded on by the plaintiff’s servants in his journey to town. 
Two such lessons, and so rapidly succeeding to each other, 
will not, perhaps, be quite thrown away. 
Mr. Provost, of Barnet, will, probably, on mature consider¬ 
ation, feel that he spoke a little unadvisedly, when, seeing the 
horse for the first time, only three hours before his death, he, 
if the newspaper report is true, says that the nail had punc¬ 
tured the coffin-bone—death must have ensued from such a 
wound—it was mortal—treatment might have prolonged the 
life a little, but the wound was mortal: and the animal not 
exhibiting lameness for two or three days, would make no dif¬ 
ference”! !—Y.] 
Veterinary Students who have obtained their 
Diplomas. 
Januarij 18/A, 1838. 
Mr. George Wilkes, London; 
Mr. George Godbould, Woodbridge. 
February 8/A, 1838. 
Mr. Curtis Hutson, Spilsby, Lincoln ; 
Mr. Francis Hedley, Middleton-Tyas, York ; 
Mr. William Midgley, Sherriff-Hutton, York ; 
Mr. Henry Hutchinson, Wragby, Lincoln. 
