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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Casanova's Minors v. Aregno 3 La. 211 1831 0 Seizure, sales, successions, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Stokes & Smith v. Upper Appomatox Co. 30 Va. 318 1831 1 Virginia
Overseers of Poor of Henrico v. Hart 30 Va. 1 1831 1 Virginia
Phillips v. Flint 3 La. 146 1831 0 Successions, property, mortgages, debts, privileges, res judicata, petitory action, partition, seizure Louisiana
Durnford v. Clark's Estate 3 La. 199 1831 0 Hypothecary action, property, mortgages, sales, privileges, prescription, debts Louisiana
Flower v. Taliaferro 3 La. 88 1831 0 Sales, petitory action Louisiana
Griffon v. Jacobs 2 La. 192 1831 0 Promissory notes, delivery, sales Louisiana
Harrison v. Faulk 3 La. 68 1831 0 Communiy property, damages, sales, sequestration, seizure, taxes, property Louisiana
Torrance v. Hurst 1 Miss. 403 1831 1 Mississippi
Bouquette's Guardian v. Donnet 2 La. 193 1831 0 Successions, wills, sales, damages, property Louisiana
Petit v. His Creditors 3 La. 26 1831 0 Mortgages, privileges, sales, property, debts, consideration, fraud, recordation, contracts Louisiana
Bach v. Hall 3 La. 116 1831 0 Sales, delivery, possessory action, petitory action, parol evidence, property, contracts Louisiana
Daunois v. Leeds 2 La. 358 1831 0 Sales, delivery, property, seizure Louisiana
Dranguet v. Prudhomme 3 La. 74 1831 0 Property, contracts, sales, seizure, capacity, mortgages, recission, community property, emancipation, recordation, mandates Louisiana
Baines v. Higgins 2 La. 220 1831 0 Sales, parol evidence Louisiana
McMaster v. Beckwith 2 La. 329 1831 0 Damages, torts, sales, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Smith's Heirs v. Blunt 2 La. 132 1831 0 Mortgages, sales, seizure, debts, successions, privileges, property Louisiana
Penniman v. Richardson 3 La. 101 1831 0 Injunction, bonds, property, suretyship, damages, reconventional demand, seizure, debts Louisiana
Woodruff v. Bentley 30 F. Cas. 521 1831 0 Property dispute Arkansas
Chisolm v. Skillman 2 La. 142 1831 0 Seizure, sales, successions, damages, property, community property, debts, privileges Louisiana