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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Ex parte Louis 3 La. Ann. 467 1848 0 Wills, emancipation, property, damages, unpaid wages Louisiana
Keller v. McCalop 12 La. 639 1846 0 Wills, emancipation, property, capacity Louisiana
Lebeau v. Trudeau 10 La. Ann. 164 1855 0 Wills, emancipation, property Louisiana
State v. Executors of McDonogh 8 La. Ann. 171 1853 0 Wills, emancipation, nullity, property, donations, substitutions Louisiana
Gentile v. Plasencia 10 La. Ann. 203 1855 0 Wills, emancipation, nullity Louisiana
Marie v. Avart 6 Mart. (o.s.) 731 1819 0 Wills, emancipation, freedom suit, sales Louisiana
Jamison v. Bridge 14 La. Ann. 31 1859 0 Wills, emancipation, freedom suit Louisiana
Hardesty v. Wormley 10 La. Ann. 239 1855 0 Wills, emancipation Louisiana
Deshotels v. Soileau 14 La. Ann. 745 1859 0 Wills, emancipation Louisiana
Maranthe v. Hunter 11 La. Ann. 734 1856 0 Wills, emancipation Louisiana
Crawford v. Puckett 14 La. Ann. 639 1859 0 Wills, donation inter vivos Louisiana
Pagett v. Curtis 15 La. Ann. 451 1860 0 Wills, Dispute over true ownership of enslaved persons, Louisiana
Valsain v. Cloutier 3 La. 170 1831 0 Wills, debts, legitimacy, renunciation, property, successions, fraud, lesion, res judicara, filiation, prescription, capacity, emancipation Louisiana
Laplace v. Haydel 19 La. Ann. 363 1867 0 Wills, Debts Louisiana
Harper v. Stanbrough 2 La. Ann. 377 1847 0 Wills, conflict of laws, property, successions, sales Louisiana
Morton v. Packwood 3 La. Ann. 167 1848 0 Wills, community property, administrator capacity, partition, res judicata, quanti minoris, sales, simulation Louisiana
Succession of McClelland 14 La. Ann. 762 1859 0 Wills, community and separate property Louisiana
Langley's Heirs v. Langley's Executors 12 La. 114 1838 0 Wills, capacity, validity, nullity, emancipation Louisiana
Aubert v. Aubert 6 La. Ann. 104 1851 0 Wills, capacity, parol evidence, form requirements Louisiana
Marie v. Avart's Heirs 10 Mart. (o.s.) 25 1821 0 Wills, capacity, emancipation, newly discovered evidence, parol evidence, successions Louisiana