44 N.C. 81 | N.C. | 1852
The case presents the single question, whether the bill of sale from Chambliss and others to Maclin, which the plaintiff claimed was sufficient, as against the defendant, to pass the title of the slave Washington. The defendant’s counsel contend that it was not, because it was neither proved and registered, nor had a subscribing witness, as required by our Statute laws. The counsel admit the general rule, that the bill of sale being executed in the State of Virginia where the vendors lived, and
Pee Cckiam. Judgment affirmed.