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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Potter v. Richardson 1 Mart. (n.s.) 276 1823 0 Sales, mortgages, seizure, damages, eviction, bonds, property, injunction Louisiana
Turnbull v. Cebra 1 Mart. (n.s.) 611 1823 0 Seizure, mortgages, renunciation, community property, contracts Louisiana
Commonwealth v. Griffith 19 Mass. 11 1823 0 False imprisonment Massachusetts
Lunsford v. Coquillon 2 Mart. (n.s.) 401 1824 0 Freedom suit, conflict of laws, emancipation, property Louisiana
Calvit v. Compton 3 Mart. (n.s.) 86 1824 0 Prescription, successions, sales, property, conflict of laws, contracts, parol evidence Louisiana
Davis v. Curtis 3 Mart. (n.s.) 142 1824 0 Torts, murder, evidence Louisiana
Voorhies' ex rel. Cappel v. Mulhollan 3 Mart. (n.s.) 70 1824 0 Obligations, sales, property, bonds, suretyship, agency, res judicata Louisiana
Ulzire v. Poeyfarre 2 Mart. (n.s.) 504 1824 0 Freedom suit Louisiana
Marigny d'Auterive v. Degruy 2 Mart. (n.s.) 116 1824 0 Privileges, mortgages, wages, property, seizure, sales, novation Louisiana
Harper v. Destrehan 2 Mart. (n.s.) 389 1824 0 Petitory action, sales, dilatory exception, successions, property Louisiana
Campbell v. Miller 3 Mart. (n.s.) 149 1824 0 Sales, conflict of laws, contracts, mandates, parol evidence, property Louisiana
Commonwealth v. Barker 11 Serg. & Rawle 360 1824 0 Faulty registration of slave SC of PA.
Melancon's Heirs v. Duhamel 3 Mart. (n.s.) 7 1824 1 Louisiana
Syndics of Weimprender v. Weimprender 2 Mart. (n.s.) 591 1824 0 Syndic, fraud, sales, debts, property, prescription, property Louisiana
Martin v. Curtis 3 Mart. (n.s.) 105 1824 0 Petitory action, prescription, warranty, sales, simulation, delivery, fraud Louisiana
Prudhomme v. Dawson 3 Mart. (n.s.) 161 1824 0 Community property, prescription, property Louisiana
Desdunes v. Miller 2 Mart. (n.s.) 53 1824 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, suretyship Louisiana
Smoot & Dinsmore v. Baldwin 3 Mart. (n.s.) 84 1824 0 Property, sales, delivery, suretyship, contracts Louisiana
Sikes v. Allen 2 Mart. (n.s.) 622 1824 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, warranty Louisiana
Doubrere v. Grillier's Syndic 2 Mart. (n.s.) 171 1824 0 Freedom suit, property, sales, emancipation, sequestration, suretyship Louisiana