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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Cecil v. Rose 17 Md. 92 1861 0 Maryland
Succession of Woodward 22 La. Ann. 305 1870 0 Contracts Louisiana
Worsham v. Brown 4 Ga. 284 1848 0 Bill in Equity Georgia
Lane v. Roselius 23 La. Ann. 258 1871 0 Property Louisiana
Osborn v. Osborn 23 La. Ann. 496 1871 0 Mortgage/Inheritance Louisiana
Merritt v. Merle 22 La. Ann. 257 1870 0 Property Louisiana
Succession of Taylor 25 La. Ann. 446 1873 0 Property, Heir dispute Louisiana
Poutz v. Reggio 25 La. Ann. 637 1873 0 Property/price of slaves Louisiana
Foster v. Dupre 5 Mart. (o.s.) 6 1817 0 Property, libel, seizure, contracts, assumption, consideration, damages, torts Louisiana
Fouque's Syndics v. Vigniaud 6 Mart. (o.s.) 423 1819 0 Property, debts, sales, consideration, promissory notes, parol evidence Louisiana
McKee's Administrators v. McKee's Administrators 16 Md. 516 1861 0 Maryland
Banks v. Trudeau 2 Mart. (n.s.) 39 1823 0 Promissory notes, community property, suretyship, mortgages, contracts, seizure, privileges Louisiana
Chretien v. Theard 11 Mart. (o.s.) 11 1822 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, prescription Louisiana
Marigny d'Auterive v. Degruy 2 Mart. (n.s.) 116 1824 0 Privileges, mortgages, wages, property, seizure, sales, novation Louisiana
Peytavin v. Hopkins 6 Mart. (o.s.) 256 1819 0 Agency, partneships, property, mortgages, seizure, sales, evidence Louisiana
Gravier v. Livingston 6 Mart. (o.s.) 281 1819 0 Successions, property, partition, community property, adverse possession Louisiana
May v. Eastin 2 Port. 414 1835 0 Action for Return of an Ensalved Person Alabama
Bayon v. Tricou 5 Mart. (o.s.) 1 1817 0 Property, sales, recission Louisiana
Davison v. Chabres' Heirs 6 Mart. (n.s.) 317 1827 0 Successions, sales, subrogation, property, debts, prescription, community property Louisiana
Byrne v. Taylor 2 Rob. 341 1842 0 Injunction, sales, mortgages, privileges, writ of fifa, property, seizure Louisiana