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Case Name Citation ▲ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Chabert v. Beard 12 La. 397 1846 0 Community property, mortgages, promissory notes Louisiana
Collier v. His Creditors 12 La. 398 1846 0 Mortgages, property, seizure, sales, promissory notes, prescription, privileges Louisiana
Vawter v. Gill 12 La. 423 1838 0 Promissory notes, sales, redhibition, recission, damages Louisiana
Cuny v. Robert 12 La. 474 1838 0 Sales, petitory action, warranty, promissory notes Louisiana
Gorton v. Gorton's Executor 12 La. 476 1838 0 Injunction, seizure, sales, mortgages, successions, property, promissory notes, suretyship Louisiana
State v. Thomas 12 La. 48 1845 0 Statutory interpretation, wills, property, criminal law Louisiana
Pralon v. Aymard 12 La. 487 1846 0 Sales, privileges, mortgages, promissory notes Louisiana
Escurieux v. Chapdu 12 La. 520 1846 0 Seizure, successions, witness testimony, sales, promissory notes Louisiana
White v. M'Quillan 12 La. 530 1838 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, seizure, sales, peremptory exception, debts, prescription, property Louisiana
Nolan v. Babin 12 La. 531 1846 0 Seizure, property, sales, partition, damages Louisiana
Webb v. Goodby 12 La. 539 1846 0 Successions, partition, donation inter vivos, emancipation Louisiana
Rost v. Henderson 12 La. 549 1846 0 Wills, partition, emancipation, manumission Louisiana
Balot y Ripoll v. Moriña 12 La. 552 1846 0 Successions, property, wills, seizure, sales, mortgages, privileges, legitimacy Louisiana
Pannell's Heirs v. Overton 12 La. 555 1838 0 Syndic, property, community property, mortgages, contracts, petitory action, Louisiana
Compton v. Prescott 12 La. 56 1845 0 Successions, capacity, marriage, wills, property, legitimacy, onerous contracts, testamentary intent, partition Louisiana
Hood v. M'Corkle 12 La. 573 1838 0 Murder, torts, damages, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Terrill v. Chambers 12 La. 582 1838 0 Property, damages, successions, sales, adverse possession Louisiana
Mason v. Mason's Widow & Heirs 12 La. 589 1838 0 Partition, successions, property, donations, community property, promissory notes, collation Louisiana
Hamilton v. Michel 12 La. 593 1846 0 Injunctions, seizure, sales, property, notice, parol evidence Louisiana
Baudoin v. Nicolas 12 La. 594 1846 0 Privileges, property, seizure, sales, witness testimony Louisiana