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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Watson v. Orr 14 N.C. 161 1831 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Cooper v. Pridgeon 17 N.C. 98 1831 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Arnold v. Blackwell 17 N.C. 1 1831 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Boyd v. Cook 30 Va. 32 1831 0 Wills & Estate SC of Appeals VA
Erwin's Executors v. Trion 2 La. 305 1831 0 Property, sales, successions, contracts, mortgages, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Valsain v. Cloutier 3 La. 170 1831 0 Wills, debts, legitimacy, renunciation, property, successions, fraud, lesion, res judicara, filiation, prescription, capacity, emancipation Louisiana
McMaster v. Beckwith 2 La. 329 1831 0 Damages, torts, sales, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Allison v. Davidson 17 N.C. 79 1831 0 Sales North Carolina
Yarborough v. Harris 14 N.C. 40 1831 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Vass v. Commonwealth 30 Va. 786 1831 1 Virginia
Clarke v. Cotton 17 N.C. 51 1831 0 Action of debt North Carolina
McBrayer v. Roberts 17 N.C. 75 1831 0 Suit in equity North Carolina
Kemp v. Wamack 2 La. 272 1831 0 Tutorship, successions, wages, liquidation Louisiana
Holmes v. Hall 14 N.C. 98 1831 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Cotton v. Cullen 2 La. 371 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, capacity, agency, debts, property, wills Louisiana
Butler v. Duvall 4 D.C. 167 1831 0 Slave Importation United States
Randolph v. Randolph 29 Va. 540 1831 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Speight v. Gatling 17 N.C. 5 1831 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Baines v. Higgins 2 La. 220 1831 0 Sales, parol evidence Louisiana
State v. Pitot 2 La. 266 1831 0 Promissory notes, sales, successions, mortgages, privileges, wills, property Louisiana