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1783-05-31

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, forbidding Notaires to draw up Deeds of sale of nègres, if the Sellers do not prove their ownership

Haitian

BETWEEN the woman named Zabeth, free négresse, residing at the Cap, Appellant; And Jean-François Quarteron, Fisherman, Respondent. Ruling on the further Conclusions of the Procureur-Général du Roi, forbids Cormeaux la Chapelle, Notaire, and all others to make similar sales (of enslaved people) unless the Parties show them their titles of ownership.

Source  ·  p. act 06:288 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 06:288