Knight v. . Thomas

It was argued at the bar, and admitted by the Court, that the judges heretofore have decided that under the acts of 1784, ch. 10, sec. 7, a parol conveyance of negroes is good as between the parties themselves, as before the making of this act; but was void as to creditors, as well creditors who became such after the conveyance as those who were creditors at the time; for the mischief intended to be remedied by the act was that subsequent creditors had been defeated of their debts contracted upon the credit of a man's visible property, by means of secret gifts to children and others, made…