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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Dawson v. Duplantier 15 La. 289 1840 0 Sales, promissory notes, property, seizure, privileges, injunction, redhibition, mortgages, contracts Louisiana
Mix's Absent Heirs v. Mix's Executor 15 La. 66 1840 0 Wills, successions, property, legacies Louisiana
M'Donough v. Childress 15 La. 556 1840 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, prescription, property Louisiana
Buel v. New-York Steamer 17 La. 541 1841 0 Runaway enslaved person, sequestration, witness testimony, property, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Samory v. Hebrard 17 La. 555 1841 0 Fieri facias, property, interrogatories, simulation, fraud, privileges, obligations Louisiana
Thibodeaux v. Thomasson 17 La. 353 1841 0 Property, recission, sales, fraud, simulation, promissory notes, contracts Louisiana
Capdeviel v. Dodd 17 La. 149 1841 0 Promissory notes, sales, successions, consideration, redhibition, recission, witness testimony Louisiana
Guidry v. Guidry 4 La. 437 1832 0 Successions, community property, property, sales Louisiana
Hickey v. Duplantier 4 La. 314 1832 0 Successions, property, community property Louisiana
Blanchet v. Hellebrant 4 La. 439 1832 0 Community property, property, privileges, seizure, mortgages, fraud Louisiana
Heirs of Kempe v. Hunt 4 La. 477 1832 0 Hypothecary action, partnerships, successions, sales, property, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Prevost v. Simeon 4 La. 472 1832 0 Successions, property, partition, sales, suretyship, injunction, fraud Louisiana
Heirs of Fulton v. Sollibellos 4 La. 526 1832 0 Sales, successions, suretyship, privileges, property, partition Louisiana
Wilson v. Proctor 6 La. 523 1834 0 Successions, sales, redhibition, recission, reconventional demand Louisiana
Flint v. Cuny 6 La. 67 1833 0 Syndic, debts, property, successions, simulation, privileges, consideration, sales, prescription Louisiana
Sprigg v. Beaman 6 La. 59 1833 0 Mortgages, sales, property, privileges, fraud, debts, hypothecary action, witness testimony, subrogation Louisiana
Gottschalk v. De La Rosa 6 La. 219 1834 0 Sales, promissory notes, fraud, freedom suit Louisiana
Lange v. Richoux 6 La. 560 1834 0 Successions, property, capacity, sales, emancipation, legitimacy Louisiana
Dunlap v. Bailey 7 La. 368 1834 0 Injunction, successions, wills, property, sales, bonds, emancipation Louisiana
Fagot v. Porche 7 La. 562 1835 0 Partnerships, promissory notes, seizure, sales, parol evidence Louisiana