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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Binford's Adm'r v. Robin 42 Va. 328 1845 0 Suit for freedom SC of Appeals VA
Whiting v. Prentice 12 La. 141 1845 0 Privileges, property, sales, obligations, fraud, prescription, revocatory action, debts, mortgages Louisiana
Wheat v. Croom 7 Ala. 349 1845 0 Trespass Alabama
Jenkins v. Theriot 11 Rob. 450 1845 0 Successions, sales, seizure Louisiana
Edwards v. Burroughs 12 La. 171 1845 0 Property, sales, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Hoyle v. Moore's Devisees 39 N.C. 175 1845 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Hemken v. Ludewig 12 La. 188 1845 0 Successions, community property, mortgages, privileges, donations Louisiana
Boyers v. Vinson 9 Rob. 518 1845 0 Sales, donations, simulation, fraud, successions, prescription Louisiana
Adams ex rel. United States v. Avery 9 Rob. 431 1845 0 Promissory notes, seizure, sales, property, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Williams v. Alexander 39 N.C. 207 1845 0 Gift North Carolina
Hawkins v. Alston 39 N.C. 137 1845 0 Mortgages/Deeds North Carolina
Thomson v. Mylne 11 Rob. 349 1845 0 Property, sales, contracts, mortgages, successions, privileges, partition, partnerships Louisiana
Hood v. Segrest 12 La. 210 1845 0 Possessory action, petitory action, sales, mortgages, property, prescription Louisiana
Hagan v. Ocean Insurance 10 Rob. 333 1845 0 Mutiny, insurance policy Louisiana
Dosson v. Sanders 12 La. 238 1845 0 Seizure, sales, property, successions, capacity, promissory notes, mortgages Louisiana
Milliken v. Andrews 11 Rob. 241 1845 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, witness testimony Louisiana
Fink v. Martin 10 Rob. 147 1845 0 Successions, mortgages, suretyship, seizure, sales, sequestration Louisiana
Lallande v. Lee 9 Rob. 514 1845 0 Property, sales, promissory notes, mortgages, recission, damages, subrogation Louisiana
Guilford v. Guilford 39 N.C. 168 1845 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Elias v. Smith 25 Tenn. 33 1845 0 Tennessee