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wife, but the facts set forth being true, this would be in fraud of creditors and would be of no avail to him. Upon the prayer of the Complainant the Asst. Supt. enjoined against the proposed sale and now applies for instructions.

A Court of Equity would give such an injunction in a similar case, and even at law on an affidavit of a creditor that his debtor [[strikethrough]] being [[/strikethrough]] about to dispose of his property and abscond, a remedy is given by attachment, and security required to abide a proper decision, the alternative being confinement. The forms of Equity may be difficult of management in a Freedman's Court, but the principle is the same, and should be carried out as well as may be.

From the necessity of the case, and the imminent emergency, I recommend that the action of Lt Chase, Asst Supt for Culpepper Co, in respect to the injunction, be approved of, and that he be directed, by means of proceedings in the Freedmen's Court, to pursue the case in the same spirit with which it has been started. It is impossible at this time and at a distance to direct what shall be the formal mode the action of the defendant may compel the Court to adopt. The case is now however in the nature of an interlocutory order or injunction pending the hearing and decision of a Bill of Complaint. This should be brought to a trial and decision

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