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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Allain v. Young 9 Mart. (o.s.) 221 1821 0 Damages, torts, property, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Case of Jones 2 Del. Cas. 622 1821 0 Order of replevein of three kidnapped enslaved individuals Delaware
St. Romes v. Pore 10 Mart. (o.s.) 30 1821 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, contracts, warranty, witness testimony Louisiana
Bayon v. Vavasseur 10 Mart. (o.s.) 61 1821 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, fraud, witness testimony Louisiana
Pelletreau v. Rathbone 18 Johns. 428 1821 0 SC of New York
Brown v. Compton 10 Mart. (o.s.) 425 1821 0 Fraud, runaway enslaved person, manumission, sales, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Wyche v. Wyche 10 Mart. (o.s.) 408 1821 0 Community property, property, sales, successions, damages Louisiana
Van Horne v. Fonda 5 Johns. Ch. 388 1821 0 Will & Trust Chancery Court of New York
Van Alst v. Hunter 5 Johns. Ch. 148 1821 0 Will & Trust Chancery Court of New York
Smith v. Smith 10 Mart. (o.s.) 400 1821 0 Wages, leases, sales Louisiana
St. Romes v. Pore 10 Mart. (o.s.) 203 1821 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, evidence Louisiana
Edwards v. Massey 8 N.C. 359 1821 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 398 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, recission, indeminification Louisiana
Vienne v. Boissier 10 Mart. (o.s.) 359 1821 0 Successions, renunciation, property, sales, injunction Louisiana
Dufour v. Camfranc 11 Mart. (o.s.) 607 1822 0 Sales, successions, fieri facias, property, prescription, successions Louisiana
Vavasseur v. Bayon 11 Mart. (o.s.) 639 1822 0 Fraud, sales, property, recission, redhibition Louisiana
Surgat v. Potter 12 Mart. (o.s.) 365 1822 0 Sales, agency, mandates Louisiana
Hunter's Syndics v. Hunter 12 Mart. (o.s.) 5 1822 0 Obligations, penalties, delivery, sales, bonds Louisiana
Hunter's Syndics v. Hunter 12 Mart. (o.s.) 1 1822 0 Bonds, obligations, penalties Louisiana
Chretien v. Theard 11 Mart. (o.s.) 11 1822 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, prescription Louisiana