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1769-12-21

DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which holds that a Holder burdened with a Substitution who emancipates and marries his concubine (a négresse forming part of the substituted property) and who legitimates the bastards he…

Haitian

BETWEEN the sieur Jamet, Settler at Port Margot, appellant, of the one part; and Philippe Aumouet, Guardian of the minor Guerre children, respondent, of the other part. After Behagnon, Avocat of the appellant, and Trémolet de Mercei, Avocat of the respondent, have been heard during the Audiences of the 23rd, 24th and 27th of last November, those of the 7th and 11th of this month, and that of this day, together with Lohier de la Charmeraye, first Substitut for the Procureur-Général du Roi, in his conclusions; and all considered: THE COURT has set and does set at nothing the appeal and the judgment appealed from, amending it; declares the substitution open to the profit of Behagnon’s party; in consequence orders that delivery shall be made to him, within the month of service of the present Decree, of the property included in the substitution; sentences Trémolet’s party in his capacity to the costs, both of the principal causes and of the appeal.

Source  ·  p. act 05:246 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 5) (1784-1790), p. act 05:246