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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Lowry v. Erwin 6 Rob. 192 1843 0 Successions, property, fraud, promissory notes, domicil, wills Louisiana
Fox v. Walsh 5 Rob. 222 1843 0 Redhibition, sales, recission Louisiana
Rachal v. Normand 6 Rob. 88 1843 0 Promissory notes, contracts, property, privileges, mortgages Louisiana
Prentice v. Chewning 6 Rob. 163 1843 0 Fieri facias, bonds, property, sales, contracts Louisiana
Lazarus v. Lewis 5 Ala. 457 1843 0 Property dispute Alabama
Salle v. Light's Exr's 4 Ala. 700 1843 0 Covenant Alabama
Holmes v. Hemken 6 Rob. 51 1843 0 Tutorship, sales, successions, property, seizure Louisiana
Jones v. Loftin 38 N.C. 136 1843 0 Action to recover certain slaves North Carolina
State v. New Orleans & Nashville Rail Road 4 Rob. 231 1843 0 Property, mortgages, sales, seizure, recordation, privileges, Louisiana
Lash v. Hauser 37 N.C. 489 1843 0 Action of debt North Carolina
Ex parte Nicholls 4 Rob. 52 1843 0 Sales, homolgation, property, mortgages, recordation Louisiana
Compton v. Compton 6 Rob. 154 1843 0 Property, privileges, intervenor, community property, successions, mortgages Louisiana
Mathews v. Boland 5 Rob. 200 1843 0 Freedom suit, fraud, witness testimony, contracts Louisiana
Phillips v. McCollom 4 Rob. 107 1843 0 Promissory notes, property, consideration Louisiana
Lillard v. Reynolds 25 N.C. 366 1843 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
State v. Clarissa 27 N.C. 221 1844 0 Indictment for "a slave hiring her own time" North Carolina
Farmer v. Fisk 9 Rob. 351 1844 0 Redhibition, warranty, sales, recission, damages, runaway enslaved person, quanti minoris Louisiana
Milo v. Lynch 9 Rob. 98 1844 0 Sales, redhibition, recission, runaway enslaved person, Louisiana
President of the Planters Bank v. Watson 9 Rob. 267 1844 0 Prescription, fraud, simulation, promissory notes, property, mortgages Louisiana
Calderwood v. Trent 9 Rob. 227 1844 0 Property, seizure, sales, privileges, fraud, injunction Louisiana