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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Walker v. Gilbert 21 Miss. 693 1850 0 Levy on slaves Mississippi
Seawell v. Payne 5 La. 255 1850 0 Property, mortgages, privileges, sales, partnerships, contracts Louisiana
Boyd v. Thornton 21 Miss. 338 1850 1 Mississippi
Lacoste v. Pipkin 21 Miss. 589 1850 0 Human trafficking action Mississippi
Executors of Compton v. Compton 5 La. 615 1850 0 Partnerships, property, promissory notes, privileges, contracts, obligations, sales Louisiana
Moore v. Lambeth 5 La. 66 1850 0 Mortgages, sales, judicial seizure, fraud, equitable estoppel, property, contracts Louisiana
Same Case - On an Application for Re-hearing 5 La. 531 1850 0 Property, sales, theft, petitory action, marriage, contracts, recordation, evidence, prescription, conflict of laws, usufruct Louisiana
Whiting v. Hagerty 5 La. 686 1850 0 Sales, improper service, suretyship, dsicussion Louisiana
Pepper v. Dunlap 5 La. 200 1850 0 Mortgages, property, sales, judicial seizure, privileges, fraud Louisiana
State v. Levy 5 La. 64 1850 0 Criminal law, larceny, witness competency, emancipation Louisiana
Sears v. Wilson 5 La. 689 1850 0 Possessory action, sequestration, adverse possession, successions Louisiana
Bird v. Succession of Jones 5 La. 643 1850 0 Contracts, successions, wills, sales, privileges, property Louisiana
Dupre v. Desmaret 5 La. 591 1850 0 Successions, sales, redhibition Louisiana
Bird v. Black 5 La. 189 1850 0 Partnerships, marital property, sales, successions, mortgages Louisiana
Adle v. Anty 5 La. 631 1850 0 Judicial mortgages, property, hypothecary action, prescription, preemption, contracts, incapacity Louisiana
Wheeler v. Slavens 21 Miss. 623 1850 1 Mississippi
Bryan v. Lashley 21 Miss. 284 1850 1 Mississippi
Dugas v. Estiletts 5 La. 559 1850 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Syndics of Dunbar v. Woods 5 La. 135 1850 0 Promissory notes, mortgages Louisiana
Heirs of Henderson v. Rost 5 La. 441 1850 0 Olographic will, vices of form, emancipation, capacity, substitutions, property, contracts Louisiana