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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
State v. Thomas 12 La. 48 1845 0 Statutory interpretation, wills, property, criminal law Louisiana
Plummer v. Schlatre 4 Rob. 29 1843 0 Petitory action, sequestration, damages, property Louisiana
Cassidy v. His Creditors 2 Rob. 47 1842 0 Successions, mortgages, privileges, sales, property, promissory notes Louisiana
Daquin v. Coiron 6 Mart. (n.s.) 674 1828 0 Successions, property, tutorship, privileges, debts, contracts, suretyship, sales Louisiana
Moreau v. Chauvin 8 Rob. 157 1844 0 Mortgages, sales, obligations, contracts, recission Louisiana
Offutt v. Morancy 12 La. 92 1845 0 Sales, contracts, promissory notes, delivery Louisiana
Phillips v. McCollom 4 Rob. 107 1843 0 Promissory notes, property, consideration Louisiana
Ex parte Nicholls 4 Rob. 52 1843 0 Sales, homolgation, property, mortgages, recordation Louisiana
Rist v. Hagan 8 Rob. 106 1844 0 Redhibition, sales, warranty, runaway enslaved person, prescription Louisiana
Beale v. Walden 11 Rob. 67 1845 0 Property, simulation, sales, community property, mortgages, damages, successions, sequestration Louisiana
White v. Guyot 4 Rob. 108 1843 0 Mortgages, promissory notes, seizure, sales, recission, redhibition, damages Louisiana
Grayson v. Houston 4 Rob. 54 1843 0 Promissory notes, suretyship, obligations, agency, delivery Louisiana
Graves v. Hemken 12 La. 103 1845 0 Seizure, property, wills, successions, conflict of laws, damages Louisiana
Mehle v. Lapeyrollerie 16 La. Ann. 4 1861 0 Marriage, Divorce Louisiana
Johnson v. Pilster 4 Rob. 71 1843 0 Mortgages, divorce, community property, successions, sales Louisiana
Whiting v. Prentice 12 La. 141 1845 0 Privileges, property, sales, obligations, fraud, prescription, revocatory action, debts, mortgages Louisiana
Bissell v. Leftwich 4 Rob. 102 1843 0 Prescription, contracts, usufruct Louisiana
Montgomery v. Levistones 8 Rob. 145 1844 0 Promissory notes, prescription, debts Louisiana
Edwards v. Burroughs 12 La. 171 1845 0 Property, sales, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Ogden v. Michel 4 Rob. 155 1843 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana