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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Carson v. Dwight 5 Rob. 484 1843 0 Sales, seizure, conflict of laws, emancipation, reconventional demand Louisiana
Smith v. Scott 3 Rob. 258 1842 0 Promissory notes, suretyship, property, successions, privileges Louisiana
Succession of Weil 24 La. Ann. 139 1872 0 Contracts - consideration of slave Louisiana
Adams v. Lear 3 La. Ann. 144 1848 0 Sales, property, mortgages, promissory notes, privileges, partition Louisiana
Burton v. Chaney 3 La. Ann. 338 1848 0 Promissory notes, property, sales, prescription, contracts Louisiana
State v. Lewis 3 La. Ann. 398 1848 0 Criminal law, muder, habeas corpus, statutory interpretation Louisiana
Coby v. Kock 3 La. Ann. 439 1848 0 Sales, emancipation, sequestration, emancipation Louisiana
Bibb v. Union Bank 3 La. Ann. 334 1848 0 Sheriff's sale, judicial seizure, prescription, mortgages, property, bonds, recordation, acquisitive prescription, hypothecary action Louisiana
Orr v. Thomas 3 La. Ann. 582 1848 0 Successions, privileges, intervenors, community property, mortgages, debts sales, insolvency Louisiana
Hill v. Bowden 3 La. Ann. 258 1848 0 Service, petitory action, intervenor, property, eviction, bad faith possessors Louisiana
Whiting v. Hagerty 5 La. 686 1850 0 Sales, improper service, suretyship, dsicussion Louisiana
Pepper v. Dunlap 5 La. 200 1850 0 Mortgages, property, sales, judicial seizure, privileges, fraud Louisiana
Clevenger v. Clevenger 48 Tenn. 104 1870 0 Tennessee
Bird v. Succession of Jones 5 La. 643 1850 0 Contracts, successions, wills, sales, privileges, property Louisiana
City of Richmond v. Long's Adm'rs 58 Va. 375 1867 0 Action to recover value of a slave SC of Appeals VA
McAuley v. His Creditors 4 La. Ann. 52 1849 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, sales, syndic's sale, privileges Louisiana
Alston v. Taylor 2 N.C. 439 1796 0 Action of debt North Carolina
Lalande v. Breaux 5 La. 505 1850 0 Partnership, successions, mortgages, property, promissory notes, obligations Louisiana
Isham v. State 38 Ala. 213 1862 0 Homicide of a White Person Alabama
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 308 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, indemnification Louisiana