DECREE of the Conseil of Cap, which pronounces the nullity of a Gift of enslaved people

LOUIS, etc. Between the sieur Linas, Saddler, residing at Cap, Appellant from the Sentence of the Siège Royal of the said Town, of 20 July 1782, Plaintiff by his conclusions taken at the bar, tending that it might please Our said Court to set the appeal and that from which appeal was taken at naught; amending, to declare the deed of gift passed before Maître Grimperel, Notaire, on 27 June 1771, null and of no effect, as being feigned and simulated; consequently to maintain and keep him in the ownership of the nègres Jean-Baptiste and Tonny, sold to him by the dame widow Lavaud, by deed of 5 February 1776; to forbid the demoiselle Lavaud to disturb him in the said ownership, and to sentence her to the costs of the principal causes and of the appeal, without prejudice to his recourse against the estate of her mother, as she may see fit.