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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Dees v. Seale 5 La. 688 1850 0 Sales, partition, marital property Louisiana
Baines v. Higgins 2 La. 220 1831 0 Sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Alexander v. Alexander 12 La. Ann. 588 1857 0 Sales of enslaved persons, wills Louisiana
State v. Delerno 11 La. Ann. 648 1856 0 Sales of enslaved persons, selling liquor to enslaved person, criminal law Louisiana
Heirs of Dupuy v. Dupont 11 La. Ann. 226 1856 0 Sales of enslaved persons, forced heirs Louisiana
Gautt v. Gautt 12 La. Ann. 673 1856 0 Sales of enslaved persons, consideration, prescription Louisiana
Kennedy v. Mason 10 La. Ann. 519 1855 0 Sales, murder of enslaved person, recovery of wages, torts Louisiana
Commissioners of the New Orleans Improvement & Banking Co. v. Jewett 11 Rob. 20 1845 0 Sales, mortgages, writ of fifa, seizure, property, recordation, domicile Louisiana
Poydras v. Tusson 10 La. 46 1836 0 Sales, mortgages, seizure, sales, contracts, property Louisiana
Potter v. Richardson 1 Mart. (n.s.) 276 1823 0 Sales, mortgages, seizure, damages, eviction, bonds, property, injunction Louisiana
Frelson v. Tiner 6 La. Ann. 18 1851 0 Sales, mortgages, redhibition, property, contracts, conflict of laws Louisiana
Broussard v. Philips 6 Mart. (n.s.) 309 1827 0 Sales, mortgages, property, debts Louisiana
Bissell v. Erwin's Heirs 10 La. 524 1837 0 Sales, mortgages, property, contracts, damages, leases Louisiana
Haley v. Dubois 10 Rob. 54 1845 0 Sales, mortgages, property Louisiana
Flemming v. Rotchford 11 La. Ann. 400 1856 0 Sales, mortgages, property Louisiana
Fernandez v. Bein 1 La. Ann. 32 1846 0 Sales, mortgages, promissory notes, seizure, debts, emancipation, obligations, contracts Louisiana
Beale's Heirs v. De Gruy 2 La. 468 1831 0 Sales, mortgages, promissory notes, redhibition, recission, damages, successions, contracts Louisiana
Bowman v. McKleroy & Bradford 14 La. Ann. 587 1859 0 Sales, mortgages, fraud, judgments Louisiana
Leblanc v. Walsh 8 La. Ann. 67 1853 0 Sales, mortgages, eviction, property Louisiana
Mallard v. Carpenter 6 La. Ann. 397 1851 0 Sales, mortgages, domicile Louisiana