An act for the better regulation of executors and administrators, in the defence of actions or suits brought against them in right of their respective testators or intestates estates; and for other purposes.

ANNO 16 GEORGE III. CAP. 15.

Enacts, Clause 3.--- “That, from and after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for executors and administrators to maintain, sue, prosecute, and defend, in the name or names of such executor or executors, administrator or administrators, in any of the courts of this island, any action or actions, suit or suits, touching and concerning any mulatto, negro, or other slave or slaves, the property of, or in the possession of, their respective testators or intestates at the time of his or her decease, and which slave or slaves, from and after the death of such testator or intestate, came into the possession of any person or persons whatsoever, and to recover the same by judgment of the same court, in like manner as the testator or intestate, if living, might have done; any law, custom, or usage to the contrary in anywise notwithstanding: Provided always nevertheless, That such action or actions, suit or suits, be not maintained, sue, prosecuted, or defended, against the heir, devisee, or other person lawfully possessed, of such slave or slaves, but only as against a stranger, or other person having no legal or just title thereto.”