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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
State v. Borroum 1 Mor. St. Cas. 638 1872 0 Answering a charge of buying and selling slaves without authority Mississippi
Garrard v. State 1 Mor. St. Cas. 657 1872 0 Sale of liquor to an enslaved person without consent of the master Mississippi
Allen v. Johnson 48 Miss. 413 1873 0 Right to employ agents to manage labor post-abolition Mississippi
Saxon v. Ames 47 Miss. 565 1873 0 Inequality in the division of slaves in an estate Mississippi
Smith v. McWaters 7 La. Ann. 145 1852 0 Petitory action, sales, prescription Louisiana
Guier v. Guier 7 La. Ann. 103 1852 0 Sales, successions, property, usufruct Louisiana
Ray v. Harris 7 La. Ann. 138 1852 0 Sales, fraud, simulation Louisiana
Parham v. Cobb 7 La. Ann. 157 1852 0 Property, suretyship, partnerships, mortgages, partition Louisiana
Waddil v. Thompson 7 La. Ann. 592 1852 0 Possessory action, successions, legal representatives Louisiana
Stackhouse v. Kendall 7 La. Ann. 670 1852 0 Redhibition, sales Louisiana
Sandridge v. Jones 2 La. Ann. 933 1847 0 Laibility, runaway enslaved person, debts, seizure, laches Louisiana
McIntosh v. Smith 2 La. Ann. 756 1847 0 Community property, debts, sales, warranty, prescription, fraud Louisiana
Dupuy v. Bemiss 2 La. Ann. 509 1847 0 Successions, seizure, property, sales, mortgages, debts, fraud, simulation, privileges Louisiana
Stephenson v. Lee 6 La. Ann. 758 1851 0 Mortgages, sales, possessory action Louisiana
Bacon v. Leeds 6 La. Ann. 804 1851 0 Suretyship, runaway enslaved person, leases, redhibition Louisiana
Morris v. Williams 6 La. Ann. 391 1851 0 Marital property, sales, successions, privileges, fraud, mortgages Louisiana
Bach v. Abbott 6 La. Ann. 809 1851 0 Sales, mandates, mortgages, promissory notes, simulation Louisiana
Landry v. Marchais 6 La. Ann. 87 1851 0 Marital property, simulations, contracts, prescription Louisiana
State v. Geze 8 La. Ann. 52 1853 0 Criminal law, selling liquor to enslaved person Louisiana
Harris v. Guenther 8 La. Ann. 433 1853 0 Petitory action, property, evidence Louisiana