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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Toten v. Case 7 Mart. (n.s.) 261 1828 0 Successions, prescription, property, wills, forced heir Louisiana
Shepherd v. Percy 4 Mart. (n.s.) 267 1826 0 Sales, property, community property, property, fraud Louisiana
Maurin v. Toustin 6 Mart. (o.s.) 496 1819 0 Sales, wages Louisiana
Lafarge v. Morgan 11 Mart. (o.s.) 462 1822 0 Sales, property, debts, mortgages, hypothecary action, promissory notes, obligations, damages, contracts, breach, sequestration Louisiana
Noble v. Martin 7 Mart. (n.s.) 282 1828 0 Wages, contracts Louisiana
Saulet v. Loiseau 6 Mart. (o.s.) 512 1819 0 Sales, warranty, recission, redhibition, witness testimony, impeachment Louisiana
Levesque v. Anderson 6 Mart. (n.s.) 293 1827 0 Suretyship, property, recission, sales, successions, redhibition Louisiana
Allen v. Martin 7 Mart. (n.s.) 300 1828 0 Contracts, wages, reconventional demand Louisiana
Cox v. Williams 7 Mart. (n.s.) 301 1828 0 Promissory notes, consideration, agency, successions, sales, suretyship, mortgages Louisiana
Weathersby v. Latham 7 Mart. (n.s.) 310 1828 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, damages Louisiana
Girod v. Lewis 6 Mart. (o.s.) 559 1819 0 Marriage, manumission, capacity, contracts, emancipation Louisiana
Gill v. Phillips 6 Mart. (n.s.) 298 1827 0 Property, successions, partition, sales, sequestration, debts, fraud Louisiana
Spraggins v. White's Executors 4 Mart. (n.s.) 297 1826 0 Partnerships, liquidation, sales, property Louisiana
Coleman v. Breaud 6 Mart. (n.s.) 207 1827 0 Property, conflict of laws, petitory action, evidence Louisiana
De Armas v. Hampton 6 Mart. (o.s.) 567 1819 0 Property, sales, marriage, community property, contracts Louisiana
Percy's Syndic v. Percy 7 Mart. (n.s.) 348 1829 0 Debts, sales, privileges, community property, successions, reconventional demand Louisiana
Seville v. Chretien 5 Mart. (o.s.) 275 1817 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, res judicata, witness testimony, Louisiana
Dewees v. Morgan 1 Mart. (o.s.) 1 1809 0 Sales, redhibition, recission, witness testimony, warranty Louisiana
Palfrey v. Rivas 7 Mart. (o.s.) 371 1820 0 Runaway enslaved person, sales, arrest, negligence Louisiana
Broussard v. Philips 6 Mart. (n.s.) 309 1827 0 Sales, mortgages, property, debts Louisiana