DECREE of the Conseil du Cap, which rules that a universal Legatee has no right to enslaved people acquired by an emancipated woman after the Deed of Manumission of the Testator, her enslaver

BETWEEN the sieur Lemaire, settler at Dondon, Testamentary Executor and universal Legatee of the sieur Hoyer, Appellant; And the woman named Rose Mayador, Respondent. Having seen the Sentence of the Juge of the Cap, of 27 May 1780, which, the Parties heard, together with the Procureur du Roi in his verbal Conclusions, joining the claims and ruling on them, discharged the woman named Rose Mayador of the condemnations pronounced against her; ruling by new Judgment, having seen the Deed of Manumission made by the sieur Hoyer, on 22 August 1767, of both the woman named Rose Mayador and the persons named, etc., condemned the said sieur Lemaire to deliver to Rose Mayador her three children who are in his possession, named Rosette, Julienne and Jacques Simon; and failing that, authorized the said Rose Mayador to have them taken and arrested at the expense of the said sieur Lemaire, wherever she may find them.