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Succession of De Bellisle

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided June 15, 1855PublishedCited by 1 opinion

PPEAL from the District Court of the parish of Assumption, Cole, J. On the 19th of September, 1830, the Lite Joseph L. De Billisle and Marie Azile Dulion, then widow Augustin Le Blanc, entered into a marriage contract, by which, after enumerating the property respectively belonging to each, the said Joseph made to the said Marie, the following donations: “ En consideration du futur mariage lefulur époux declare faire entre vifs pure et simple et irrévocable a la future…

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PPEAL from the District Court of the parish of Assumption, Cole, J. On the 19th of September, 1830, the Lite Joseph L. De Billisle and Marie Azile Dulion, then widow Augustin Le Blanc, entered into a marriage contract, by which, after enumerating the property respectively belonging to each, the said Joseph made to the said Marie, the following donations: “ En consideration du futur mariage lefulur époux declare faire entre vifs pure et simple et irrévocable a la future épouse eomme un témoignage de l’affection qu’il lui porte, ce que la future épouse accepte avec reconnaissance, lo d’une…

1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.

The marriage contract between Joseph Léborne de Bellisle and Marie Aselie JDuhon, contains the following- clause : “ En consideration du futur mariage, le future époux declare faire donation entre-vifs pure et simple et irrevocable, á la future épouse, comme un témoignage de l’affeclion, qu’il lui porte, ce que la future épousfe accepte avoc reconnaissance.

lo. D’une somme de deux mille piastres.

*4782o. D’une autre somme de sept cents piastres, destiné pour l’achat d’une esclave, laquelle sera achetée au nom de la future épouse, par acto authen-tique, et deviendra son bien dotal.

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2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Fowler v. BoydSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1840

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Pluche v. JonesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1893

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