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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Lum v. Kelso 3 La. 64 1831 0 Sales, sequestration, injunction, privileges, mortgages, fraud, simulation, community property, debts Louisiana
Torrance v. Hurst 1 Miss. 403 1831 1 Mississippi
Millaudon v. Allard 2 La. 547 1831 0 Mortgages, seizure, sales, intervenor, property, promissory notes Louisiana
Rils v. Questi 2 La. 249 1831 0 Successions, sales, property, debts Louisiana
Dewoody v. Hubbard 1 Stew. & P. 9 1831 0 Property dispute Alabama
Sample v. Lamb's Curator 2 La. 275 1831 0 Wages, successions, contracts, privileges, damages Louisiana
Smith v. Wilson 2 La. 255 1831 0 Partnerships, successions, property, sales, privileges, debts Louisiana
Bethea v. Taylor 3 Stew. 482 1831 0 Trespass Alabama
Erwin's Executors v. Trion 2 La. 305 1831 0 Property, sales, successions, contracts, mortgages, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Hodder v. Nelder 2 La. 525 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, wills, property Louisiana
Prejean's Heirs v. Le Blanc 3 La. 19 1831 0 Successions, property, reversion Louisiana
Ails v. Bowman 2 La. 251 1831 0 Sales, contracts, runaway enslaved person, recission, redhibition, damages Louisiana
Preston v. Zabrisky 2 La. 226 1831 0 Fraud, possessory action, usufruct, eviction Louisiana
Casanova's Minors v. Aregno 3 La. 211 1831 0 Seizure, sales, successions, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Harrison v. Faulk 3 La. 68 1831 0 Communiy property, damages, sales, sequestration, seizure, taxes, property Louisiana
Wallace v. Dold's Ex'ors 30 Va. 258 1831 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Madry v. Young 3 La. 160 1831 0 Recordation, sales, parol evidence, conflict of laws, delivery, petitory action, contracts Louisiana
Durnford v. Clark's Estate 3 La. 199 1831 0 Hypothecary action, property, mortgages, sales, privileges, prescription, debts Louisiana
Taliaferro v. Foote 30 Va. 58 1831 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Thomas v. Thomas 2 La. 166 1831 0 Wills, parol evidence, property Louisiana