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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Lawson v. Ripley 17 La. 238 1841 0 Successions, community property, property, debts, partition, sales, contracts, parol evidence Louisiana
Ware v. W'Candlish 38 Va. 595 1841 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Poydras v. Taylor 18 La. 12 1841 0 Property, successions, obligations, contracts, wills, sales Louisiana
Slaughter's Adm'r v. Tutt 39 Va. 147 1841 0 Action in trover SC of Appeals VA
Taylor v. Taylor 21 Tenn. 597 1841 0 Tennessee
Mitaine v. Ferguson 18 La. 92 1841 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, sequestration Louisiana
Johnson v. Perry 21 Tenn. 569 1841 0 Property Tennessee
Cripps v. Mudd 6 F. Cas. 814 1841 0 Wills/ Parol Evidence United States
Bethea v. McLennon 23 N.C. 523 1841 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Commonwealth v. Nix 38 Va. 636 1841 0 Selling a free man as a slave General Ct. of VA
Cameron v. Commissioners of Raleigh 36 N.C. 436 1841 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Buel v. New-York Steamer 17 La. 541 1841 0 Runaway enslaved person, sequestration, witness testimony, property, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Thibodeaux v. Thomasson 17 La. 353 1841 0 Property, recission, sales, fraud, simulation, promissory notes, contracts Louisiana
Hamletts v. Hamlett's Ex'ors 39 Va. 350 1841 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Freeman v. Knight 37 N.C. 72 1841 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Kinsey v. Rhem 24 N.C. 192 1841 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Stewart v. Barcroft 23 F. Cas. 53 1841 0 Manumission/executor's duties United States
Nash v. Benedict 25 Wend. 644 1841 0 Kidnapping SC of Judicature of New York
Rowley v. Rowley 19 La. 557 1841 0 Community property, property, divorce, partition, sales, mortgages Louisiana
Desha v. Baker 3 Ark. 509 1841 0 Writ of attachment Arkansas