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1785-05-24

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap concerning the sale of nègres belonging to Estates of Bastardy

Haitian

Having seen the Petition of Verville, Receveur des Aubaines at Fort-Dauphin, tending to be received as Appellant from the Ordinance of the Juge of the said place, which had permitted him to sell an enslaved woman, belonging to the Succession of the woman named Foëda, free négresse, and for that purpose had sent him back to conform to the provisions of the Ordinance of 24 November 1781; Written Conclusions of Deschamps, Substitut of the Procureur-Général du Roi; having heard the report of M. Le Gris, Conseiller, and all considered: THE COURT records for the Procureur Général du Roi the incidental appeal that he brings from the Ordinance of Fort-Dauphin, joins his appeal to the principal appeal, and ruling on them by one and the same Decree, has set at nothing the Ordinance in question.

Source  ·  p. act 06:629 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 6) (1784-1790), p. act 06:629