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1773-01-11

DECREE of the Conseil of the Cap, which fixes at 6 months the redhibitory action for nègres afflicted with Epilepsy

Haitian

LOUIS, etc. Between the sieur Riviere, the elder, etc. And ruling on the requisition of the Procureur-Général of the King, THE COURT has fixed at the term of 6 months, counting from the day of purchase of the enslaved aboard nègre-trade ships, the period for the redhibitory action on account of the sickness of epilepsy; orders that copies of the present Decree, duly collated, shall be sent to the Seats within its jurisdiction, etc.

Source  ·  p. act 05:409 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 05:409