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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Kirksey v. Bates 1 Ala. 303 1840 0 Action of replevison by a bond Alabama
Pepper v. Dunlap 16 La. 163 1840 0 Seizure, sales, property, mortgages, promissory notes, privileges Louisiana
Morton v. Crosby 14 La. 424 1840 0 Sales, seizure, damages, fraud, simulation, recordation, parol evidence, property Louisiana
Kemp v. Kemp 15 La. 517 1840 0 Successions, partition, property, sales Louisiana
Dawson v. Duplantier 15 La. 289 1840 0 Sales, promissory notes, property, seizure, privileges, injunction, redhibition, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Mix's Absent Heirs v. Mix's Executor 15 La. 66 1840 0 Wills, successions, property, legacies Louisiana
M'Donough v. Childress 15 La. 556 1840 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, prescription, property Louisiana
Barrett v. Walker 14 La. 303 1840 0 Promissory notes, property, mortgages, conflict of laws, contracts, sales Louisiana
Smith v. Bradford 14 La. 281 1840 0 Sales, property, promissory notes, mortgages, seizure, sales, privileges, debts, damages Louisiana
Brumfield v. Cunningham 14 La. 264 1840 0 Promissory notes, fraud, damages Louisiana
Harrod v. Voorhies' Administratrix 16 La. 254 1840 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, successions, recordation, debts, prescription, seizure, sales Louisiana
Filhiol's Heirs v. Hempkin 16 La. 326 1840 0 Successions, debts, attorney's fees, sales, property Louisiana
Brosnaham v. Turner 16 La. 433 1840 0 Successions, property, emancipation, legitimacy, wills, conflict of laws, capacity, sales Louisiana
Cuny v. Robert 16 La. 175 1840 0 Sales, petitory action, delivery, warranty, mandate, agency, prescription, property Louisiana
Fulton's v. Gorton's Executor 16 La. 320 1840 0 Injunction, sales, successions, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, seizure, sales, recission, promissory notes, warranty, damages Louisiana
Nelson v. Lillard 16 La. 336 1840 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, damages, warranty, mortgages, promissory notes Louisiana
Fuqua v. Hunt 1 Ala. 197 1840 0 Detinue Alabama
Wilson v. Waples 3 Del. 270 1840 0 A father, who was a free man, could not own his son Delaware
Ross v. Vertner 6 Miss. 305 1840 0 Will & trust Mississippi
Lambert v. Franchebois 16 La. 1 1840 0 Property, community property, seizure, sales, damages, debts Louisiana