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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Commonwealth v. Tracy 46 Mass. 536 1843 0 Wrongful detainment Massachusetts
Salle v. Light's Exr's 4 Ala. 700 1843 0 Covenant Alabama
White v. Guyot 4 Rob. 108 1843 0 Mortgages, promissory notes, seizure, sales, recission, redhibition, damages Louisiana
Johnson v. Pilster 4 Rob. 71 1843 0 Mortgages, divorce, community property, successions, sales Louisiana
Ogden v. Michel 4 Rob. 155 1843 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Sides v. Nettles 4 Rob. 170 1843 0 Successions, property, prescription, wills Louisiana
State v. Moore 8 Rob. 518 1843 0 Murder, black code, manslaughter, criminal law, statutory interpretation, property Louisiana
Reynaud v. His Creditors 4 Rob. 514 1843 0 Privileges, mortgages, successions, property, sales Louisiana
Love v. Love's Adm'or 38 N.C. 104 1843 0 Descent and distribution North Carolina
State ex rel. Lister v. Skinner 26 N.C. 57 1843 0 Action of debt North Carolina
Cannon v. Peebles 26 N.C. 204 1843 0 Action of trespass North Carolina
Brown v. Robertson 4 F. Cas. 426 1843 0 Trespass vi et armis United States
Adams v. Hayes 24 N.C. 361 1842 0 Action of trover North Carolina
Newsom Administrator v. Thompson 24 N.C. 277 1842 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Blackledge v. Clark 24 N.C. 394 1842 0 Action of trespass North Carolina
Young v. Commonwealth 40 Va. 744 1842 0 Larceny of a slave General Ct. of VA
Lewen v. Stone 3 Ala. 485 1842 0 Dispute over Will Alabama
Oden v. Stubblefield 4 Ala. 40 1842 0 Detinue Alabama
McAnulty v. Bingaman 7 Miss. 382 1842 0 Levy on slaves Mississippi
Thomas v. Selser 1 Rob. 425 1842 0 Promissory notes, sales, redhibition, recission, witness testimony Louisiana