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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Bonnet v. Ramsay 6 Mart. (n.s.) 129 1827 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, prescription, runaway ensalved person Louisiana
Copelle v. Dalton 4 Mart. (n.s.) 123 1826 0 Successions, property, sales Louisiana
Erwin v. Porter 6 Mart. (n.s.) 166 1827 0 Property, seizure, sales, eviction, contracts Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 4 Mart. (n.s.) 154 1826 0 Seizure, sales, injunction, property, promissory notes, mortgages Louisiana
Doubrere v. Grillier's Syndic 2 Mart. (n.s.) 171 1824 0 Freedom suit, property, sales, emancipation, sequestration, suretyship Louisiana
Metayer v. Metayer 6 Mart. (o.s.) 16 1819 0 Emancipation, freedom suit, false imprisonment, damages, evidence, prescription, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
Andry v. Foy 7 Mart. (o.s.) 33 1819 0 Redhibition, recission, sales, warranty, runaway enslaved person, evidence Louisiana
Petit v. Gillet 5 Mart. (o.s.) 19 1817 0 Abatement, prescription, res judicata, property, evidence Louisiana
Gorton v. Barbin 7 Mart. (n.s.) 248 1828 0 Damages, robbery, property, liability, criminal law Louisiana
Accinelli v. Syndics of Menard 2 Mart. (n.s.) 222 1824 0 Sales, mandates, bankruptcy, contracts, property, mortgages, promissory notes, syndic, privileges Louisiana
Lafarge v. Morgan 11 Mart. (o.s.) 462 1822 0 Sales, property, debts, mortgages, hypothecary action, promissory notes, obligations, damages, contracts, breach, sequestration Louisiana
Noble v. Martin 7 Mart. (n.s.) 282 1828 0 Wages, contracts Louisiana
Levesque v. Anderson 6 Mart. (n.s.) 293 1827 0 Suretyship, property, recission, sales, successions, redhibition Louisiana
Allen v. Martin 7 Mart. (n.s.) 300 1828 0 Contracts, wages, reconventional demand Louisiana
Girod v. Lewis 6 Mart. (o.s.) 559 1819 0 Marriage, manumission, capacity, contracts, emancipation Louisiana
Gill v. Phillips 6 Mart. (n.s.) 298 1827 0 Property, successions, partition, sales, sequestration, debts, fraud Louisiana
Coleman v. Breaud 6 Mart. (n.s.) 207 1827 0 Property, conflict of laws, petitory action, evidence Louisiana
De Armas v. Hampton 6 Mart. (o.s.) 567 1819 0 Property, sales, marriage, community property, contracts Louisiana
Palfrey v. Rivas 7 Mart. (o.s.) 371 1820 0 Runaway enslaved person, sales, arrest, negligence Louisiana
A. Montan & Bros. v. Whitley 12 La. Ann. 175 1857 0 Redhibition, recission of slave of enslaved family Louisiana