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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
State v. Joshua 15 La. Ann. 118 1860 0 Appeals of capital punishment Louisiana
Billiu v. White 15 La. Ann. 624 1860 0 Property, ownership of certain slave Louisiana
African Methodist Episcopal Church v. City of New Orleans 15 La. Ann. 441 1860 0 Constitutional law, free persons, property Louisiana
Maille v. Blas 15 La. Ann. 100 1860 0 Criminal law Louisiana
Percy v. Millaudon 3 La. 568 1832 0 Partnerships, sales, collusion, debts, fraud, corporations, promissory notes, property, corporations Louisiana
Petit v. His Creditors 3 La. 26 1831 0 Mortgages, privileges, sales, property, debts, consideration, fraud, recordation, contracts Louisiana
Dranguet v. Prudhomme 3 La. 74 1831 0 Property, contracts, sales, seizure, capacity, mortgages, recission, community property, emancipation, recordation, mandates Louisiana
Grigsby v. Louisiana Bank 3 La. 491 1832 0 Emancipation, property, stocks, capacity, donation inter vivos Louisiana
Madry v. Young 3 La. 160 1831 0 Recordation, sales, parol evidence, conflict of laws, delivery, petitory action, contracts Louisiana
Penniman v. Richardson 3 La. 101 1831 0 Injunction, bonds, property, suretyship, damages, reconventional demand, seizure, debts Louisiana
Wells v. Walker 8 La. 14 1835 0 Petitory action, property, sales, fraud, recordation, privileges Louisiana
Bank of Louisiana v. Stansbury 8 La. 257 1835 0 Seizure, sales, mortgages, injunction, property, privileges, community property Louisiana
Mortee v. Roach's Syndic 8 La. 81 1835 0 Recission, sales, debts, syndic, mortgages, privileges, 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
Buel v. New-York Steamer 17 La. 541 1841 0 Runaway enslaved person, sequestration, witness testimony, property, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Samory v. Hebrard 17 La. 555 1841 0 Fieri facias, property, interrogatories, simulation, fraud, privileges, obligations Louisiana
Thibodeaux v. Thomasson 17 La. 353 1841 0 Property, recission, sales, fraud, simulation, promissory notes, contracts Louisiana