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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Dufour v. Delacroix 11 Mart. (o.s.) 719 1822 0 Wages, evidence Louisiana
Jourdan v. Williams 6 Mart. (o.s.) 659 1819 0 Successions, privileges, property, sales, community property Louisiana
Dunn v. Vail 7 Mart. (o.s.) 416 1820 0 Damages, property, community property, fieri facias, seizure, sales Louisiana
Andry v. Foy 6 Mart. (o.s.) 689 1819 0 Sales, promissory notes, successions, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, contracts Louisiana
Verret's Heirs v. Candolle 4 Mart. (n.s.) 402 1826 0 Privileges, mortgages, successions, property, wills Louisiana
Hawkins v. Vanwickle 6 Mart. (n.s.) 418 1828 0 Property, petitory action, fieri facias, emancipation, conflict of laws Louisiana
Peytavin v. Hopkins 5 Mart. (o.s.) 438 1818 0 Debts, mortgages, property, seizure, sales, privileges, successions, hearsay Louisiana
Augustin v. Cailleau 5 Mart. (o.s.) 464 1818 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, res judicata, seizure, successions, sequestration, property Louisiana
Ford's Curator v. Ford 2 Mart. (n.s.) 574 1824 0 Successions, community property, property, conflict of laws, trusts, renunciation, promissory notes, contracts, domicil Louisiana
Syndics of Weimprender v. Weimprender 2 Mart. (n.s.) 591 1824 0 Syndic, fraud, sales, debts, property, prescription, property Louisiana
Dreux v. His Creditors 7 Mart. (n.s.) 635 1829 0 Successions, syndic, debts, privileges, property, mortgages Louisiana
Delphine v. Deveze 2 Mart. (n.s.) 650 1824 0 Freedom suit, successions, damages, prescription Louisiana
Jourdan v. Patton 5 Mart. (o.s.) 615 1818 0 Torts, damages, indemnification, property Louisiana
Dreux v. His Creditors 4 Mart. (n.s.) 629 1826 0 Successions, syndic, mortgages, privileges, property Louisiana
Volant v. Lambert 6 Mart. (n.s.) 555 1828 0 Sales, conflict of laws, damages, petitory action, theft Louisiana
Xenes v. Taquino 7 Mart. (n.s.) 678 1829 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, fraud Louisiana
Orleans Navigation Co. v. Mayor of New-Orleans 1 Mart. (o.s.) 269 1811 0 Servitude, corporeal rights, incorporeal rights, wages, construction, witness testimony, water law, incorporation Louisiana
Beauregard Ex'tor v. Piernas 1 Mart. (o.s.) 281 1811 0 Property, debts, sales, successions, suretyship, seizure, contracts, privileges Louisiana
Mayes v. Calvit 5 Mart. (o.s.) 669 1818 0 Sales, delivery, consideration, promissory notes, property, seizure, evidence Louisiana
Overton v. Gervais 6 Mart. (n.s.) 685 1828 0 Sales, property, debts, bonds Louisiana