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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Joseph v. Moreno 2 La. 460 1831 0 Contracts, specific performance, petitory action, community property, sales Louisiana
Halphen v. Franklin's Curator 2 La. 465 1831 0 Wages, privileges, successions Louisiana
Bocod v. Jacobs 2 La. 408 1831 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Markham v. Close 2 La. 581 1831 0 Sales, criminal law, peremptory exception, property, battery, property Louisiana
Burney's Heirs v. Lamothe 3 La. 195 1831 0 Sales, adverse possession, prescription, petitory action, community property, successions, debts, conflict of laws, property, damages Louisiana
Cotton v. Cullen 2 La. 371 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, capacity, agency, debts, property, wills Louisiana
Thomas v. Thomas 2 La. 166 1831 0 Wills, parol evidence, property Louisiana
Daunois v. Leeds 2 La. 358 1831 0 Sales, delivery, property, seizure Louisiana
Borel v. Fusillier 2 La. 567 1831 0 Sales, contracts Louisiana
McMaster v. Beckwith 2 La. 329 1831 0 Damages, torts, sales, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Dismukes v. Musgrove 2 La. 335 1831 0 Sales, trusts, fraud, successions, promissory notes Louisiana
Sample v. Lamb's Curator 2 La. 275 1831 0 Wages, successions, contracts, privileges, damages Louisiana
Lum v. Kelso 3 La. 64 1831 0 Sales, sequestration, injunction, privileges, mortgages, fraud, simulation, community property, debts Louisiana
Erwin's Executors v. Trion 2 La. 305 1831 0 Property, sales, successions, contracts, mortgages, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Smith's Heirs v. Blunt 2 La. 132 1831 0 Mortgages, sales, seizure, debts, successions, privileges, property Louisiana
Chisolm v. Skillman 2 La. 142 1831 0 Seizure, sales, successions, damages, property, community property, debts, privileges Louisiana
Paxton v. Cobb 2 La. 137 1831 0 Fraud, reconventional demand, delivery, property Louisiana
Flower v. Taliaferro 3 La. 88 1831 0 Sales, petitory action Louisiana
Casanova's Minors v. Aregno 3 La. 211 1831 0 Seizure, sales, successions, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
State v. Pitot 2 La. 266 1831 0 Promissory notes, sales, successions, mortgages, privileges, wills, property Louisiana