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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Emmerling v. Beebe 15 La. 251 1840 0 Bailment, conversion, sales, damages Louisiana
Lesassier v. Lesassier 15 La. 55 1840 0 Successions, property, mortgages, privileges, seizure 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
Serapurn v. Bousquet 15 La. 509 1840 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, promissory notes, warranty Louisiana
Landry v. Segond 15 La. 154 1840 0 Community property, property, mortgages, seizure, sales, privileges, prescription, injunction Louisiana
Mix's Absent Heirs v. Mix's Executor 15 La. 66 1840 0 Wills, successions, property, legacies Louisiana
Woodward v. Dashiell 15 La. 184 1840 0 Hypothecary action, debts, mortgages, property, seizure, sales, damages, privileges, injunction Louisiana
Lesassier v. Dashiell 14 La. 467 1840 0 Promissory notes, property, sales, mortgages, recission, redhibition, fraud Louisiana
Kerries v. Botts 14 La. 432 1840 0 Sales, redhibition, warranty, recission Louisiana
Dunbar v. Thomas 14 La. 332 1840 0 Seizure, sales, promissory notes, successions, partition, injunction, damages, property Louisiana
Clark v. Glover 14 La. 266 1840 0 Injunction, mortgages, property, promissory notes, seizure, sales, sequestration Louisiana
Dawson v. Duplantier 15 La. 289 1840 0 Sales, promissory notes, property, seizure, privileges, injunction, redhibition, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Barrett v. Walker 14 La. 303 1840 0 Promissory notes, property, mortgages, conflict of laws, contracts, sales Louisiana
Morton v. Crosby 14 La. 424 1840 0 Sales, seizure, damages, fraud, simulation, recordation, parol evidence, property Louisiana
Williams v. Duer 14 La. 531 1840 0 Seizure, sales, property, injunction, sequestration, privileges, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Brander v. Bowmar 16 La. 370 1840 0 Mortgages, promissory notes, sales, recordation, debts Louisiana
Tompkins v. Benjamin 16 La. 197 1840 0 Property, successions, tutorship Louisiana
Den on Demise of Halcombe v. Ray 23 N.C. 340 1840 1 North Carolina
Barnett v. Macoin 14 La. 428 1840 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, criminal law Louisiana