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1783-03-06

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, ruling that nègres placed under a farm lease may be seized

Haitian

BETWEEN the sieur Vergille, merchant at the Cap, of the one part; And the sieur Jacquemin, settler at Limbé, of the other part. Seen, etc. After d’Augy, Avocat for the Appellant, and Carles, Avocat for the Respondent, were heard; and everything considered: THE COURT, joining the appeals from the two Sentences of 1 May 1779 in question, has annulled and annuls the Appeals and the Sentences appealed from; amending, evoking the principal matter, and ruling on it, declares good and valid the two seizures in execution in question; orders that the nègres seized shall be sold and adjudged in the ordinary form, at the Bar of the Siège Royal of this Town; so that, from the proceeds of the said sale, d’Augy’s party may be paid what is due to him in principal, interest and costs, &c.

The nègres seized had been given under a farm lease to a mulâtre, a masonry contractor. DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, confirming a Sentence of the Siège Royal of

Source  ·  p. act 06:270 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 06:270