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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▼
Carson v. Dwight 5 Rob. 484 1843 0 Sales, seizure, conflict of laws, emancipation, reconventional demand Louisiana
Smith v. Scott 3 Rob. 258 1842 0 Promissory notes, suretyship, property, successions, privileges Louisiana
Bookout v. Anderson 3 Rob. 290 1842 0 Petitory action, fraud, theft, debts, mortgages, property Louisiana
Gros v. Bienvenu 3 Rob. 396 1843 0 Sales, redhibition, fraud, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Succession of Weil 24 La. Ann. 139 1872 0 Contracts - consideration of slave Louisiana
Adams v. Lear 3 La. Ann. 144 1848 0 Sales, property, mortgages, promissory notes, privileges, partition Louisiana
Clark v. State Bank 3 La. Ann. 325 1848 0 Judicial seizure, sales, fraud, simulation Louisiana
Burton v. Chaney 3 La. Ann. 338 1848 0 Promissory notes, property, sales, prescription, contracts Louisiana
State v. Lewis 3 La. Ann. 398 1848 0 Criminal law, muder, habeas corpus, statutory interpretation Louisiana
Davis v. Janin 3 La. Ann. 712 1848 0 Sales, promissory notes, runaway enslaved person, redhibition Louisiana
Consolidated Ass'n v. Comeau 3 La. Ann. 552 1848 0 Prescription, bonds, obligations, leases, mortgages, stocks, successions, intervenor, hypothecary action, preemption, sales, property Louisiana
Davidson v. Matthews 3 La. Ann. 316 1848 0 Sales, partition, title, successions, mortgages Louisiana
Coby v. Kock 3 La. Ann. 439 1848 0 Sales, emancipation, sequestration, emancipation Louisiana
Bibb v. Union Bank 3 La. Ann. 334 1848 0 Sheriff's sale, judicial seizure, prescription, mortgages, property, bonds, recordation, acquisitive prescription, hypothecary action Louisiana
Crouch v. Lockett 3 La. Ann. 121 1848 0 Mortgages, privileges, sales, subrogation, domicile, recordation, property Louisiana
Orr v. Thomas 3 La. Ann. 582 1848 0 Successions, privileges, intervenors, community property, mortgages, debts sales, insolvency Louisiana
Hill v. Bowden 3 La. Ann. 258 1848 0 Service, petitory action, intervenor, property, eviction, bad faith possessors Louisiana
Executors of Compton v. Compton 5 La. 615 1850 0 Partnerships, property, promissory notes, privileges, contracts, obligations, sales 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