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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
De Blanc v. Mouton 9 Rob. 48 1844 0 Community property, debts, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
New Orleans Gas Light & Banking Co. v. Botts 9 Rob. 305 1844 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person, recission, warranty Louisiana
Ringgold v. Barley 5 Md. 186 1853 0 Maryland
Penny v. Christmas 7 La. 481 1844 0 Successions, community property, sales, privileges, sequestration, conflict of laws Louisiana
Tison v. McAfee 50 Ga. 279 1873 0 Slave debt Georgia
Hills v. Jacobs 7 La. 406 1844 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, sales, privileges Louisiana
Winston v. Foster 5 Rob. 113 1843 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Solomon Walker's Administrators v. Hawkins 2 N.C. 458 1796 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
In re the Tutorship of Virginia Kershaw 5 Rob. 488 1843 0 Tutorship, successions, competency, witness testimony, property Louisiana
Arrieux v. Dugas 5 Rob. 453 1843 0 Property, successions, community property, sales, mortgages, privileges, seizure, subrogation, res judicata Louisiana
Kennedy’s Heirs v. Kennedy’s Heirs 2 Ala. 571 1841 0 Alabama
Succession of Weil 24 La. Ann. 139 1872 0 Contracts - consideration of slave Louisiana
Clark v. State Bank 3 La. Ann. 325 1848 0 Judicial seizure, sales, fraud, simulation Louisiana
Burton v. Chaney 3 La. Ann. 338 1848 0 Promissory notes, property, sales, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Consolidated Ass'n v. Comeau 3 La. Ann. 552 1848 0 Prescription, bonds, obligations, leases, mortgages, stocks, successions, intervenor, hypothecary action, preemption, sales, property Louisiana
Davidson v. Matthews 3 La. Ann. 316 1848 0 Sales, partition, title, successions, mortgages 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
Crouch v. Lockett 3 La. Ann. 121 1848 0 Mortgages, privileges, sales, subrogation, domicile, recordation, property Louisiana
Same Case - On an Application for Re-hearing 5 La. 531 1850 0 Property, sales, theft, petitory action, marriage, contracts, recordation, evidence, prescription, conflict of laws, usufruct Louisiana
State v. Hannah 10 La. Ann. 131 1855 0 Manslaughter, sentences, constitution, confession Louisiana