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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Dussuau v. Rilieux 9 Mart. (o.s.) 318 1821 0 Suretyship, damages, seizure, property, sales, debts Louisiana
Judah v. Harris 19 Johns. 144 1821 1 New York
Garretson v. Lingan 10 F. Cas. 46 1821 1 United States
Wyche v. Wyche 10 Mart. (o.s.) 408 1821 0 Community property, property, sales, successions, damages Louisiana
Garretson v. Lingan 2 D.C. 236 1821 0 Freedom Petition United States
Costin v. Corporation of Washington 2 D.C. 254 1821 0 Municipal Corporations United States
Van Alst v. Hunter 5 Johns. Ch. 148 1821 0 Will & Trust Chancery Court of New York
Gibbons v. Morse 7 N.J.L. 253 1821 Recovery for value of slave New Jersey
Ellis v. Wootten 2 Del. Cas. 625 1821 0 Action against man who failed to deliver an enslaved individual Delaware
Shockley v. Traverse 2 Del. Cas. 673 1821 0 Question of whether an illegal exportation of an enslaved woman who was freed at a time but sold prior to that period Delaware
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 398 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, recission, indeminification Louisiana
Smith v. Smith 10 Mart. (o.s.) 400 1821 0 Wages, leases, sales Louisiana
Lingan v. Henderson 1 Bland 236 1821 1 Maryland
United States v. Kennedy 26 F. Cas. 762 1821 0 Indictment of slave trader Circuit Court, D. PA.
Wheeler v. Russell 17 Mass. 257 1821 1 Massachusetts
Dunbar v. Nichols 10 Mart. (o.s.) 184 1821 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, prescription, witness testimony Louisiana
St. Romes v. Pore 10 Mart. (o.s.) 203 1821 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, evidence Louisiana
Chiapella v. Lanusse's Syndics 10 Mart. (o.s.) 448 1821 0 Sales, property, mortgages, syndics, privileges, bankruptcy Louisiana
Burke v. Levy's Executors 22 Va. 1 1821 1 Virginia
Vienne v. Boissier 10 Mart. (o.s.) 359 1821 0 Successions, renunciation, property, sales, injunction Louisiana