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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Hicks v. Calvit 5 Mart. (o.s.) 691 1818 0 Successions, property, community property, intestacy Louisiana
Holmes v. Patterson 5 Mart. (o.s.) 693 1818 0 Successions, property, sales, contracts, consideration, donations Louisiana
Poydras v. Hiriart 6 Mart. (n.s.) 650 1828 0 Hypothecary action, seizure, sales, property, mortgages, debts, sequestration Louisiana
Daublin v. Mayor of New-Orleans 1 Mart. (o.s.) 185 1810 0 Property, eviction, municipal liability, nuisance Louisiana
Orleans Navigation Co v. Mayor of New-Orleans 2 Mart. (o.s.) 10 1811 0 Servitude, corporeal rights, incorporeal rights, wages, construction, witness testimony, water law, incorporation Louisiana
State v. Cecil 2 Mart. (o.s.) 208 1812 0 Witness testimony, emancipation, conflict of laws, evidence Louisiana
Meunier v. Couet 2 Mart. (o.s.) 56 1811 0 Petitory action, witness testimony Louisiana
Read v. Bailey 2 Mart. (o.s.) 60 1811 0 Sales, witness testimony, evidence, debts, promissory notes Louisiana
Flotte v. Aubert 2 Mart. (o.s.) 329 1812 0 Petitory action, sales, property, covenants, warranty, damages Louisiana
Picket v. More 2 Mart. (o.s.) 113 1811 0 Mortgages, fraud, sequestration, seizure Louisiana
Orleans Navigation Co. v. Mayor of New-Orleans 2 Mart. (o.s.) 214 1812 0 Servitude, corporeal rights, incorporeal rights, wages, construction, witness testimony, water law, incorporation Louisiana
Delahaye v. Pellerin 2 Mart. (o.s.) 142 1812 0 Damages, petitory action, res judicata Louisiana
Tonnelier v. Maurin's Ex'r 2 Mart. (o.s.) 206 1812 0 Successions, evidence, wages Louisiana
Macarty's Case 2 Mart. (o.s.) 279 1812 0 Insurrection, habeas corpus, criminal law, grand jury Louisiana
Jacob v. Ursuline Nuns 2 Mart. (o.s.) 269 1812 0 Emancipation, donations, contracts, corporations, property, subpoena duces tecum, evidence, wills Louisiana
Poutz v. Duplantier 2 Mart. (o.s.) 331 1812 0 Promissory notes, sales, property, seizure, debts, fieri facias, privileges, mortgages, suretyship Louisiana
Commissioners of the New Orleans Improvement & Banking Co. v. Jewett 11 Rob. 20 1845 0 Sales, mortgages, writ of fifa, seizure, property, recordation, domicile Louisiana
Bonneau v. Poydras 2 Rob. 1 1842 0 Successions, property, community property, promissory notes Louisiana
McFarlane v. Richardson 11 Rob. 13 1845 0 Hypothecary action, sales, seizure, mortgages, fieri facias Louisiana
Smith v. Berwick 12 La. 20 1845 0 Sales, fraud, mortgages, damages, contracts, conflict of laws, property Louisiana