This  custom  is  either  founded  upon,  or  has  caused  the  e-
nactment  of  the  statute,  which  makes  it  imperative  on  exec-
utors or  administrators  who  sell  to  pay  debts,  or  to  make  di-
vision of  the  personal  estate  of  their  testators  or  intestates,
to  give  not  less  than  six  month's  credit  for  enhancing  the
price  of  the  property.  See  act  of  1794, 1  Rev.  Stat,  ch.46.  sec.
11.  A  credit  of  twelve  months  on  the  sale  of  slaves  is  usu-
hl,  and  it  cannot  be  deemed  unreasonable  where  the  testatrix
has  forbidden  that  they  be  sold  to  speculators,  or  to  others
than  those  who  might  buy  for  their  own  use.  Such  pur-
chasers have  usually  to  look  to  their  annual  crops  for  the
means  of  meeting  their  engagements.  Believing  that  the
testatrix  contemplated  a  sale  upon  credit,  and  entertaining
the  opinion  that  the  credit  allowed  was  not  unreasonable,  we
hold  that  the  amount  which  the  purchasers  are  to  pay  upon
the  expiration  of  the  term  of  credit,  in  whatever  form  such
payment  may  be  reserved  or  secured,  is  in  the  language  of
the  will,  "  the  money  arising  from  the  sale."

On  the  second  question  raised  between  these  parties,  we

are  at  a  loss  to  see  upon  what  ground  a  larger  estate  in  the

'  negro  girl  Happy  is  claimed  by  Mr.  and  Mrs  Hinton,  than

for  the  life  of  the  latter.    Tlie  case  of  Jameses  executors  v.
