The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the FieldTaplin, William
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The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2): Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field
Taplin, William
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Those who have had occasion most to frequent the Courts, best know (in
fact, there are cases on record to justify and corroborate the
assertion) that suits have occurred, where _six_ witnesses swore "they
saw the horse almost daily for some weeks previous to his death, and
that he had the GREASE so bad he died with it;" when, to the
astonishment of a crouded court, (before MR. JUSTICE BULLER, who tried
the cause,) the DEFENDANT produced an _equal_ number of witnesses who
_swore_, "they likewise saw the horse almost daily to the last hour of
his life, and that he never had the least mark, trait, or sign of grease
about him;" to corroborate which, a HUNTSMAN (making the _seventh_
witness on that side) was produced, who swore "he stripped the horse for
his hounds, and he had no mark of grease about him." The Judge remarked,
"that the mass of perjury was absolutely beyond human conception on
_one_ side or the _other_; and so far exceeded the power of his
discrimination, that he submitted it entirely to the province of the
Jury," who immediately returned a verdict for the defendant.
It is much to be lamented, that every horse cause brought before a Court
favours more or less of this complexion; in a perfect knowledge of
which, the parties concerned strengthen their interest, and select their
_necessary_ evidence, with as much pains and eagerness as votes are
solicited at an election: and it is not at all uncommon to have a body
of evidence produced to SWEAR a horse "_dead lame_" on one side, and a
much greater number to prove him PERFECTLY SOUND on the other. In such a
glorious _uncertainty_ of the LAW, what reflecting man can indulge a
sufficient hope of success, to encounter a load of mental disquietude
during the process, with the additional expence of _thrice_ the VALUE of
the object in dispute?
LEAD.—The EXTRACT of LEAD is a preparation passing almost universally
under the denomination of GOULARD'S EXTRACT, whose properties are
acknowledged of great medical utility, and in many cases amount to a
specific. See GOULARD, where the effects of this article are more
particularly explained.
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