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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Robin v. Castille 7 La. 292 1834 0 Successions, property, mortgages, community property, debts, renunciation Louisiana
Andrus v. Chretien 7 La. 318 1834 0 Debts, suretyship, contracts, sales, seizure, successions, prescription, mortgages Louisiana
Benson v. Mathews 7 La. 356 1834 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, sales, seizure, fieri facias Louisiana
Mary v. Morris 7 La. 135 1834 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, wills, sales, damages, sequestration, conflict of laws, successions, property, manumission Louisiana
Everett v. M'Kinney 7 La. 375 1834 0 Successions, property, sales, peremptory exemption Louisiana
Small v. Flint 7 La. 352 1834 0 Promissory notes, sales, redhibition Louisiana
Bradford's Heirs v. Clark 7 La. 147 1834 0 Revendication, successions, sales, property Louisiana
Liles v. Rhodes 7 La. 87 1834 0 Property, sales, seizure, damages, fieri facias, privileges, debts Louisiana
Hewet & Co. v. Wilson 7 La. 71 1834 0 Theft, liability, damages Louisiana
Ormond v. Gibbs 15 N.C. 504 1834 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Burney v. Boyett 2 Miss. 39 1834 0 Levy on slaves dispute Mississippi
Hawkins v. Brown 7 La. 417 1834 0 Successions, suretyship, sales, promissory notes, redhibition, recission, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Welch v. Jamison 2 Miss. 160 1834 0 Recovery for alleged wrongful conversion of a slave Mississippi
Powell v. Cook 15 N.C. 499 1834 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Niblett v. White's Heirs 7 La. 253 1834 0 Damages, successions, negligence, loans Louisiana
Donally v. Ginatt's Adm'r 32 Va. 359 1834 1 Virginia
Saunders v. Stotts 6 Ohio 380 1834 1 Ohio
Syndic of McManus v. Jewett 6 La. 530 1834 1 Louisiana
Byrd v. State 2 Miss. 163 1834 0 Question of jurisdiction Mississippi
Patin v. Prejean 7 La. 301 1834 0 Successions, property, sales, seizure, sales, mortgages, community property, debts, fieri facias, contracts Louisiana