DECREE of the Conseil du Cap which annuls a Sale and a farm lease made by Agents, without sufficient power, of the nègres and of the Plantation of their Principals, and enjoins Notaires, in drawing up acts of…

BETWEEN the sieur and dame C…, Appellants; And the sieur L…, Respondent; And the sieurs B… brothers, etc.; having seen the Sentence of the Juge of the Cap of 15 September last, which, the Parties heard, together with the Procureur du Roi in his verbal conclusions, without regard to the exceptions of the sieur and dame C…, without regard to the notice of revocation of the power of attorney of the sieurs B… brothers, served by the sieur M… on the 9th of this month, half past four in the evening, nor to the act of putting in possession of the said sieur M… of the plantation in question, dated the 11th, which remains null and of no effect, and as not having occurred; having seen the copies of the act of sale of the 37 head of nègres in question, dated the 9th of this month, and of the act of the farm lease of the said day passed before noon, would have dismissed the sieur and dame C… from their claims for nullity of the said acts; consequently would have kept and maintained the said sieur L…