Cable v. Bossier

Martin, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.*

The plaintiff seeks to enforce her tacit mortgage on a slave, which she alleges to have been sold by her husband, and which is now in the defendant’s possession. She sets up her claim in virtue of a judgement which she has obtained against *559her husband, for the restitution of her dotal and paraphernal estate. There was judgement in her favor, and the defendant appealed.

Where the wife has a mortgage on the whole of her husband’s property for the restitution of her paraphernal effects she can enforce it against the. undivided half or part of the…