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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Johnson v. Field 5 Mart. (n.s.) 635 1827 0 Petitory action, property, sales Louisiana
Martel v. Tureaud's Estate 6 Mart. (n.s.) 118 1827 0 Mortgages, privileges, property, sales, promissory notes Louisiana
Overton v. Gervais 5 Mart. (n.s.) 682 1827 0 Obligations, debts, property, reconventional demand, redhibition, fraud, contracts, breach Louisiana
Lee v. Preuss 3 D.C. 112 1827 0 Freedom Petition United States
Bernardine v. Despinasse 6 Mart. (n.s.) 94 1827 0 Freedom suit, sales, successions, partition, trusts, emancipation, contracts Louisiana
Duncan's v. Poydras's Executors 5 Mart. (n.s.) 492 1827 0 Successions, criminal law, sequestration, damages, seizure, property, prescription Louisiana
Robertson v. Archer 26 Va. 319 1827 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Erwin v. Porter 6 Mart. (n.s.) 166 1827 0 Property, seizure, sales, eviction, contracts Louisiana
Bonnet v. Ramsay 6 Mart. (n.s.) 129 1827 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, prescription, runaway ensalved person Louisiana
Hudnal v. Wilder 15 S.C.L. 294 1827 0 South Carolina
Richard v. Van Meter 3 D.C. 214 1827 0 Freedom Suit/Contempt of Court United States
M'Micken v. Smith 5 Mart. (n.s.) 427 1827 0 Service, promissory notes, notice, sales, obligations, suretyship, capacity Louisiana
Yocum v. Bullit 6 Mart. (n.s.) 324 1827 0 Seizure, sales, damages, property, fraud, simulation, donations, recordation Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 5 Mart. (n.s.) 517 1827 0 Injunction, property, mortgages, seizure, wills, recordation, conflict of laws Louisiana
Beon v. Morgan 5 Mart. (n.s.) 701 1827 0 Seizure, successions, partition, property, possessory action Louisiana
Toulmin v. Buchanan's Executors 1 Stew. 67 1827 0 Trover Alabama
Fox v. Adams 5 Mart. (n.s.) 558 1827 0 Wages, contracts Louisiana
Hamilton v. Hamilton 6 Mart. (n.s.) 143 1827 0 Partition, successions, capacity, wills, property, mortgages, sales, collation Louisiana
Levesque v. Anderson 6 Mart. (n.s.) 293 1827 0 Suretyship, property, recission, sales, successions, redhibition Louisiana
Warren v. Brooks 7 Cow. 218 1827 0 Failure to obtain certificate of "slave's ability to maintain himself" pursuant to statute prior to freeing slave SC of New York