[1.] This instrument is, to all intents and purposes, a sale, for a valuable consideration, ($500) of a slave, the seller reserving to himself a life estate in the property. In other words, it is the purchase of the remainder, after the life estate has terminated. We concur with the Circuit Court, that the ,paper was irrevocable and not testamentary in its character.
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