In case both parties agree to let the alienator continuously possess the chattel when the real right of a chattel is alienated, the real right shall go into effect upon the effectiveness of the agreement.
So the federal government, having destroyed chattel slavery, sought by legal decree to sweep away all its signs and badges, civil, social, and political.
These houses are usually found within slave yards, being used as rooms for the examination of human chattels by purchasers before concluding a bargain.