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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Dreux v. His Creditors 4 Mart. (n.s.) 629 1826 0 Successions, syndic, mortgages, privileges, property Louisiana
Overton v. Archinard 5 Mart. (n.s.) 207 1826 0 Sales, property, delivery, successions, syndic, seizure, mortgages Louisiana
Bayon v. Towles 5 Mart. (n.s.) 1 1826 0 Promissory notes, sales, recission, runaway enslaved person, redhibition, warranty, mortgages Louisiana
Wright v. Harman 5 Mart. (n.s.) 235 1826 0 Criminal prosecution, sequestration, liability Louisiana
Stafford v. Stafford 5 Mart. (n.s.) 145 1826 0 Wages, petitory action Louisiana
Gardere v. Foucher 4 Mart. (n.s.) 352 1826 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, sales Louisiana
Adams v. Gaynard 5 Mart. (n.s.) 248 1826 0 Petitory action, debts, promissory notes, witness testimony, best evidence rule, subrogation, sales Louisiana
Havard v. Stone 5 Mart. (n.s.) 126 1826 0 Debts, injunction, conflict of laws Louisiana
Johnson v. Field 5 Mart. (n.s.) 635 1827 0 Petitory action, property, sales Louisiana
Coleman v. Breaud 6 Mart. (n.s.) 207 1827 0 Property, conflict of laws, petitory action, evidence Louisiana
Broussard v. Philips 6 Mart. (n.s.) 309 1827 0 Sales, mortgages, property, debts Louisiana
Fox v. Adams 5 Mart. (n.s.) 558 1827 0 Wages, contracts Louisiana
Levesque v. Anderson 6 Mart. (n.s.) 293 1827 0 Suretyship, property, recission, sales, successions, redhibition Louisiana
Gill v. Phillips 6 Mart. (n.s.) 298 1827 0 Property, successions, partition, sales, sequestration, debts, fraud Louisiana
Dufau v. Degruys 5 Mart. (n.s.) 416 1827 0 Property, sales, recission, contracts Louisiana
Overton v. Gervais 5 Mart. (n.s.) 682 1827 0 Obligations, debts, property, reconventional demand, redhibition, fraud, contracts, breach Louisiana
Millaudon v. Percy 5 Mart. (n.s.) 551 1827 0 Property, sales, partition, intervenor, successions Louisiana
Erwin v. Fenwick 6 Mart. (n.s.) 229 1827 0 Property, promissory notes, sales, damages, breach, contracts, specific performance, obligations, debts Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 5 Mart. (n.s.) 517 1827 0 Injunction, property, mortgages, seizure, wills, recordation, conflict of laws Louisiana
Yocum v. Bullit 6 Mart. (n.s.) 324 1827 0 Seizure, sales, damages, property, fraud, simulation, donations, recordation Louisiana