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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Woodruff v. Bentley 30 F. Cas. 521 1831 0 Property dispute Arkansas
Smith v. Henry 18 S.C.L. 118 1831 0 South Carolina
Butler v. Duvall 4 F. Cas. 901 1831 1 United States
Hodder v. Nelder 2 La. 525 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, wills, property Louisiana
Labbe's Heirs v. Abat 2 La. 553 1831 0 Successions, property, community property, divorcesales, simulation, fraud, injunction, partition, consideration, capacity, hypothecary action, adultery, criminal law Louisiana
Stokes & Smith v. Upper Appomatox Co. 30 Va. 318 1831 1 Virginia
Muggah v. Greig 2 La. 593 1831 0 Sales, petitory action, agency, mandates, delivery, parol evidence, property, successions, contracts Louisiana
Parter v. The Friendship 18 F. Cas. 1271 1831 0 Suit for salvage of alleged slave ship United States
Markham v. Close 2 La. 581 1831 0 Sales, criminal law, peremptory exception, property, battery, property Louisiana
Beale's Heirs v. De Gruy 2 La. 468 1831 0 Sales, mortgages, promissory notes, redhibition, recission, damages, successions, contracts Louisiana
Borel v. Fusillier 2 La. 570 1831 0 Sales, redhibition, warranty, property Louisiana
Sheppard v. Taylor 30 U.S. 675 1831 1 United States
Halphen v. Franklin's Curator 2 La. 465 1831 0 Wages, privileges, successions Louisiana
Finch v. Ragland 17 N.C. 137 1831 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Harty v. Harty 2 La. 518 1831 0 Successions, property, partition, community property, wages, dimunition, sales Louisiana
Bocod v. Jacobs 2 La. 408 1831 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Joseph v. Moreno 2 La. 460 1831 0 Contracts, specific performance, petitory action, community property, sales Louisiana
Jane v. State 3 Mo. 61 1831 0 Missouri
Boyd v. Woodfin 3 Stew. 357 1831 0 Levy on enslaved person Alabama
Fleming v. Donahoe 5 Ohio 255 1831 1 Ohio