NOTARIAL DEED. - Lot 19

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NOTARIAL DEED. - Lot 19
NOTARIAL DEED. Promissory note and acknowledgment of debt executed before a royal notary. Manuscript on paper, 4 pages in-4, dated 1683 (date written on the back and in the deed), written in Old French. Signature and notarial endorsement. Old folds, small marginal tears, a corner missing from the lower part of the last leaf without significant loss of the main content. Deed executed before a royal notary concerning a monetary obligation between several residents of a rural parish. The document records the joint and several liability of the debtors to a creditor for a specified sum, with a promise of payment from all their present and future assets, in accordance with the legal formulas in use during the reign of Louis XIV. The deed names several parties appearing before the notary, all residents of the same community, and sets forth the standard clauses of an obligation: acknowledgment of debt, personal commitment, joint and several liability among the parties, and waiver of the rights to division and dispute. The notarial endorsement and the notes on the reverse side identify the document as a copy retained by the parties. A representative example of provincial notarial practice in the late 17th century, illustrating the mechanisms of private credit in rural France under the Ancien Régime. 1683.
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