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Case Name Citation ▲ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
State v. Judge of the Tenth District 6 La. Ann. 548 1851 0 Property, judicial seizure Louisiana
Heres v. Powell 6 La. Ann. 586 1851 0 Sales, taxes Louisiana
State v. Jackson 6 La. Ann. 593 1851 0 Criminal law, capital punishment, false confessions Louisiana
Jones v. Widow & Heirs of Morgan 6 La. Ann. 630 1851 0 Successions, property, sales, donations Louisiana
Childers v. Johnson 6 La. Ann. 634 1851 0 Successions, property, community property Louisiana
Birdsale v. Lakey 6 La. Ann. 646 1851 0 Successions, sales, simulation Louisiana
Barataria & Lafourche Canal Co. v. Soniat 6 La. Ann. 65 1851 0 Judicial seizure, taxes, property, corporations Louisiana
Rawls v. Rawls 6 La. Ann. 665 1851 0 Successions, promissory notes, sales, tutorship Louisiana
Bowles v. His Creditors 6 La. Ann. 679 1851 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, subrogation, privileges, sales Louisiana
Deshautels v. Fontenot 6 La. Ann. 689 1851 0 Marital property Louisiana
State v. Jonas 6 La. Ann. 695 1851 0 Criminal law, capital punishment, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Patrick v. Bryan 6 La. Ann. 699 1851 0 Successions, promissory notes, sales, property Louisiana
Smith v. Nicholson 6 La. Ann. 704 1851 0 Trespass, conversion, successions, peremption Louisiana
Dwyer v. Cane 6 La. Ann. 707 1851 0 Employment law Louisiana
Emswiler v. Burham 6 La. Ann. 710 1851 0 Simulation, conversion, sales, property, mortgages Louisiana
Webster v. Smith 6 La. Ann. 719 1851 0 Property, inheritence, conflict of laws, donation mortis causa Louisiana
Sargent v. Slatter 6 La. Ann. 72 1851 0 Sales, redhibition, prescription, conflict of laws, contracts Louisiana
Hough v. Vickers 6 La. Ann. 724 1851 0 Sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Hanna v. Pritchard 6 La. Ann. 730 1851 0 Donations, marital property, sales Louisiana
Desha v. Jones 6 La. Ann. 743 1851 0 Judicial seizure, sales Louisiana