DECREE of the Conseil du Cap confirming a Sentence of the Siège Royal of the same Town, which rules that an enslaved woman cannot avail herself of a revoked power of attorney, by which her enslaver charged his agent…

BETWEEN Maître Seur, Avocat en Parlement, Procureur at the Sièges of the Cap, in the name and as Guardian appointed to pursue the freedom of the négresse . . ., Appellant; And the Sieur Arnaud, Respondent; Pleading Maîtres Carles and l’Anglois Desfosses; on the Conclusions of Maître Deschamps, Substitut of the Procureur-Général.

The négresse maintained that the Power of Attorney contained a binding promise. Her Guardian accordingly asked to be authorized to go before the Administrators, to have ratified a freedom for which neither the first Juge nor the Court found any grant in a power of attorney left unexecuted in this respect for eighteen months, and revoked since, without renewal of the promise.