1699-02-21
SENTENCE of the Juge of the Cap, which declares that Epilepsy in enslaved people is a redhibitory Defect
Haitian
BETWEEN François Quesnel and Associates, etc., and Antoine Fizet, Receveur of the Nègres of the Compagnie Royale de Sénégal. Having seen the statements and declarations of the Parties, and the Certificates of the sieurs Aurignac and Geffray, Master Surgeons, who declare that the Black people in question are presently suffering from the falling sickness; we sentence the said Defendants, in their capacities, to take back the said Black people; we order that they shall have recourse against those who delivered them to them, etc.
Source · p. act 00:502
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 00:502