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1671-02-06

ORDINANCE of M. DE BAAS, Gouverneur-Général of the Islands, which authorizes the seizure of nègres and Livestock for debts

Caribbean

BY this Ordinance, which concerns the debts contracted by the settlers toward the Merchants and the Company, M. de Baas orders, in conformity with the Regulation of M. de Tracy of the month of June 1664, that all Merchants and settlers who find themselves creditors shall be at liberty and permitted to have carried out the Contracts, Obligations, Sentences and other judgments which they have obtained and will obtain in future for their payments, both on the nègres, livestock and other movable property of their debtors, and by foreclosure and sale by court order, in the customary manner, of their real property, and that this right shall be common to private persons and the Company.

Registered at Martinique on the 16th of the same month of February 1672. (This extract is taken from the Collection of M. Assier.)

Source  ·  p. act 00:142 Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry, Loix et constitutions des colonies françoises de l'Amérique sous le Vent (Vol. 1) (1784-1790), p. act 00:142