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Case Name Citation ▼ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Nerault's Heirs & Wife v. L'Enclos 8 Mart. (n.s.) 185 1829 0 Property, community property, successions, eviction, sales Louisiana
Meilleur v. Coupry 8 Mart. (n.s.) 128 1829 0 Successions, executor, capacity, emancipation, property Louisiana
Jardela v. Abat 8 Mart. (n.s.) 126 1829 0 Property, sales, parol evidence, mortgages, privileges, successions, donations Louisiana
Stewart v. Allain 8 La. Ann. 64 1853 0 Mortgages, sales, property, judicial mortgage, simulation Louisiana
Brown v. Smith 8 La. Ann. 59 1853 0 Emancipation Louisiana
Leonora v. Scott 8 La. Ann. 460 1853 0 Emancipation, wills Louisiana
Heirs of Trahan v. Trahan 8 La. Ann. 455 1853 0 Emancipation, marital property, wills Louisiana
Haynes v. Forno 8 La. Ann. 35 1853 0 Emancipation, conflict of laws Louisiana
State v. Kentuck 8 La. Ann. 308 1853 0 Criminal law, capital punishment Louisiana
Rountree v. Brilliant Steamboat Co. 8 La. Ann. 289 1853 0 Property, death of enslaved person, torts Louisiana
State v. Executors of McDonogh 8 La. Ann. 171 1853 0 Wills, emancipation, nullity, property, donations, substitutions Louisiana
Johnson v. Weld 8 La. Ann. 126 1853 0 Red judicata, property, donations Louisiana
Succession of Cresswell 8 La. Ann. 122 1853 0 Emancipation, wills, property Louisiana
Adams v. Routh 8 La. Ann. 121 1853 0 Emancipation, donations, property, wills Louisiana
Lobdell v. Union Bank 8 La. Ann. 117 1853 0 Mortgages, judicial seizure, property Louisiana
Succession of Mielke 8 La. Ann. 11 1853 0 Successions, property, res judicata Louisiana
Strawbridge v. Turner 8 La. 537 1835 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person, liability, damages Louisiana
Louise v. Marot 8 La. 475 1835 0 emancipation, freedom suit, donations, successions Louisiana
Benoit v. Benoit's Heirs 8 La. 228 1835 0 Partition, property, successions, prescription Louisiana
Wells v. Lane 8 Johns. 462 1811 0 Recovery for haboring slaves SC of New York