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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Heres v. Powell 6 La. Ann. 586 1851 0 Sales, taxes Louisiana
State v. Jonas 6 La. Ann. 695 1851 0 Criminal law, capital punishment, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
State v. Read 6 La. Ann. 227 1851 0 Criminal law Louisiana
Perry v. Holloway 6 La. Ann. 265 1851 0 Property, sales, partnerships Louisiana
Phillips v. Flint 3 La. 146 1831 0 Successions, property, mortgages, debts, privileges, res judicata, petitory action, partition, seizure Louisiana
Withers's Heirs v. His Executors 3 La. 363 1832 0 Promissory notes, successions, emancipation, property, suretyship, capacity Louisiana
Durnford v. Clark's Estate 3 La. 199 1831 0 Hypothecary action, property, mortgages, sales, privileges, prescription, debts Louisiana
Bronaugh v. Bowles 3 La. 120 1831 0 Agencys, successions, property, sales, damages, partition, community property, debts Louisiana
Prejean's Heirs v. Le Blanc 3 La. 19 1831 0 Successions, property, reversion Louisiana
Irwin v. Jordan 26 Tenn. 167 1846 0 Tennessee
Burney's Heirs v. Lamothe 3 La. 195 1831 0 Sales, adverse possession, prescription, petitory action, community property, successions, debts, conflict of laws, property, damages Louisiana
Lum v. Kelso 3 La. 64 1831 0 Sales, sequestration, injunction, privileges, mortgages, fraud, simulation, community property, debts Louisiana
Grandison v. State 21 Tenn. 451 1841 0 Tennessee
Skillman v. Purnell 3 La. 494 1832 0 Partnerships, sales, seizure, injunction, debts, fieri facias, property, privileges Louisiana
Jerry v. Townshend 9 Md. 145 1856 0 Maryland
Curtis v. Curtis 4 La. 324 1832 0 Partition, property, intervenor, sequestration, seizure Louisiana
Andrus v. Wilkin 4 La. 237 1832 0 Mortgages, property, sales, privileges, contracts Louisiana
Gordon v. Johnston 4 La. 304 1832 0 Seizure, mortgages, injunction, damages, property, conflict of laws Louisiana
Baird's Heirs v. Parker 4 La. 263 1832 0 Sales, debts, mortgages Louisiana
Josephine v. Poultney 1 La. Ann. 329 1846 0 Conflict of laws, freedom suit Louisiana