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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
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
Halphen v. Franklin's Curator 2 La. 465 1831 0 Wages, privileges, successions Louisiana
Muggah v. Greig 2 La. 593 1831 0 Sales, petitory action, agency, mandates, delivery, parol evidence, property, successions, contracts Louisiana
Cotton v. Cullen 2 La. 371 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, capacity, agency, debts, property, wills Louisiana
Lum v. Kelso 3 La. 64 1831 0 Sales, sequestration, injunction, privileges, mortgages, fraud, simulation, community property, debts Louisiana
Markham v. Close 2 La. 581 1831 0 Sales, criminal law, peremptory exception, property, battery, property Louisiana
Erwin's Executors v. Trion 2 La. 305 1831 0 Property, sales, successions, contracts, mortgages, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Parter v. The Friendship 18 F. Cas. 1271 1831 0 Suit for salvage of alleged slave ship United States
McMaster v. Beckwith 2 La. 329 1831 0 Damages, torts, sales, runaway enslaved person 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
Phillips v. Flint 3 La. 146 1831 0 Successions, property, mortgages, debts, privileges, res judicata, petitory action, partition, seizure Louisiana
Valsain v. Cloutier 3 La. 170 1831 0 Wills, debts, legitimacy, renunciation, property, successions, fraud, lesion, res judicara, filiation, prescription, capacity, emancipation Louisiana
Green v. Johnson 3 G. & J. 389 1831 0 Maryland
Watts v. Garrett 3 G. & J. 355 1831 0 Maryland
Dismukes v. Musgrove 2 La. 335 1831 0 Sales, trusts, fraud, successions, promissory notes 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
Boyd v. Woodfin 3 Stew. 357 1831 0 Levy on enslaved person Alabama
Mercer v. Stark 1 Miss. 451 1831 0 Levy on slaves dispute Mississippi