ACT of Notoriety of the Châtelet of Paris, holding that the nègres attached to cultivation in Saint-Domingue are movable property

Upon the Petition made in Court before us by Maître Jean-Baptiste Fossier, Procureur of Marin Buttet, Procureur at Le Mans; and Magdeleine Yvon his Wife, for themselves and for their Co-heirs, Heirs of the late Jacques Yvon, sieur Deslandes, Lieutenant de Roi in the Isle of Saint-Domingue; setting forth that the said late sieur Deslandes lived in the said Isle of Saint-Domingue in America, that he was Proprietor of the Plantations of Grande Rivière and of la Frelatte; that for the working of these Plantations he had bought 50 to 60[?] enslaved nègres who cultivated them; that he afterward married Demoiselle Marie Ciret; that he died without Children and before the said Ciret, who took possession of all his property in the hope that the Petitioners would not learn of his death.