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Case Name Citation ▼ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Roberts v. Riley 15 La. Ann. 103 1860 1 Louisiana
Maille v. Blas 15 La. Ann. 100 1860 0 Criminal law Louisiana
Bissell v. Erwin's Heirs 15 La. 94 1840 0 Property, sales, mortgages, damages, eviction, successions, leases, contracts, seizure Louisiana
Mix's Absent Heirs v. Mix's Executor 15 La. 66 1840 0 Wills, successions, property, legacies Louisiana
Bob & Milly v. Nugent's Syndics 15 La. 63 1840 0 Freedom suit, wills, successions, emancipation, conflict of laws, syndic, privileges Louisiana
M'Donough v. Childress 15 La. 556 1840 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, prescription, property Louisiana
Lesassier v. Lesassier 15 La. 55 1840 0 Successions, property, mortgages, privileges, seizure Louisiana
State v. Judge of the Parish Court 15 La. 531 1840 0 Partnerships, sales, property, fraud, privileges, simulation, criminal law Louisiana
Kemp v. Kemp 15 La. 517 1840 0 Successions, partition, property, sales Louisiana
Serapurn v. Bousquet 15 La. 509 1840 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, promissory notes, warranty Louisiana
Dawson v. Duplantier 15 La. 289 1840 0 Sales, promissory notes, property, seizure, privileges, injunction, redhibition, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Maloney v. Doane 15 La. 278 1840 0 Torts, slander, jury instructions, malice, evidence, witness testimony, damages Louisiana
Defau v. Pelane 15 La. 273 1840 0 Promissory notes, property, community property, damages Louisiana
Emmerling v. Beebe 15 La. 251 1840 0 Bailment, conversion, sales, damages Louisiana
Forsyth v. Despierris's Executors 15 La. 215 1840 0 Redhibition, sales, recission Louisiana
Woodward v. Dashiell 15 La. 184 1840 0 Hypothecary action, debts, mortgages, property, seizure, sales, damages, privileges, injunction Louisiana
Ball's Administratrix v. Ball 15 La. 173 1840 1 Louisiana
Landry v. Segond 15 La. 154 1840 0 Community property, property, mortgages, seizure, sales, privileges, prescription, injunction Louisiana
Bernard v. Pyburn 15 La. 126 1840 0 Murder, torts, damages, negligence Louisiana
Dupuy v. Dashiell 15 La. 124 1840 0 Property, sales, seizure, privileges, mortgages, debts Louisiana