Johnson v. Bloodworth

It is agreed that the main question to he here solved is this: When the vendee of a slave, holding by private act unrecorded, has mortgaged the slave to a third person by public act duly registered, can the unpaid vendor enforce the implied dissolving condition against his vendee, to the prejudice of the mortgage creditor of the latter ?

The principles which, in our opinion, must control the decision of this question are embodied in a few articles of the Civil Code.

*700“ The dissolving condition is that which, when accomplished, operates the revocation of the obligation, placing matters in the…