Aguilar v. Bourgeois

This is an action on two promissory notes drawn hy the defendant, which were given as the price of a tract of land sold by the plaintiff to the defendant on the 23d of October, 1854. One of these notes, viz: the one for $400 was made payable in all March, 1855, and the other for $225 was made payable in all March, 1856.

By a clause in the act of sale, it was expressly stipulated “that the note for $400 was to remain deposited in the office of the Recorder of the parish of Terrebonne, until such time as the said vendor will cause to be cancelled certain judicial mortgages existing against him,…