DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which 1°. awards to mulâtre Bastards the Legacy made to them by a White man their natural Father, (of two Plantations containing 348 carreaux of land, 240 nègres, 30 mules, 80,000…

BETWEEN the Hérivaux Legatees, appellants, on the one part; and the sieur Groisil, the elder, respondent, on the other part: THE COURT has declared the default properly obtained and, for the benefit of it, has set and sets at nothing the appeal and sentence appealed from, amending, evoking the principal matter and ruling on it, orders that delivery shall be made to the appellants of the legacies, in both ownership and usufruct, contained in the will of Charles Hérivaux, dated September 16, 1770, to enjoy, make and dispose of as of right; orders further that without regard to the clause of the said will, by which the management of the two Plantations in question is entrusted to the respondent beyond the year and a day set by the custom, which clause the Court declares null and as if it had never been, the said respondent shall, within the day of the service of the present Decree, hand over the said Plantations, situated at Grand Gilles and at Bassin Cayman, with the nègres, animals and implements belonging to them, and shall render account of the outlays and improvements to the one…