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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Cotton v. Cullen 2 La. 371 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, capacity, agency, debts, property, wills Louisiana
Adams v. His Creditors 14 La. 454 1840 0 Property, promissory notes, conflict of laws, contracts, partnerships, privileges, debts, community property, mortgages, prescription, fraud, syndic Louisiana
Maurin v. Dashiell 14 La. 471 1840 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
Arnous v. Lesassier 10 La. 592 1837 0 Successions, property, mortgages, recordation, contracts Louisiana
Barelli v. Hagan 13 La. 580 1839 0 Contribution, property Louisiana
Edwards v. Nicholson 13 La. 582 1839 0 Damages, seizure, sales, injunction, trespass Louisiana
Bocod v. Jacobs 2 La. 408 1831 0 Recission, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Williams v. Duer 14 La. 523 1840 0 Seizure, sales, property, privileges, mortgages, successions, promissory notes, injunction, bonds Louisiana
Smith, F. W. C. v. Smith 13 La. 441 1839 0 Freedom suit, conflict of laws, domicil, emancipation Louisiana
Joseph v. Moreno 2 La. 460 1831 0 Contracts, specific performance, petitory action, community property, sales Louisiana
Denton v. Duplessis 12 La. 83 1838 0 Mortgages, promissory notes, debts, property, seizure, endorsement, assignments Louisiana
Halphen v. Franklin's Curator 2 La. 465 1831 0 Wages, privileges, successions Louisiana
Markham v. Close 2 La. 581 1831 0 Sales, criminal law, peremptory exception, property, battery, property Louisiana
Beale's Heirs v. De Gruy 2 La. 468 1831 0 Sales, mortgages, promissory notes, redhibition, recission, damages, successions, contracts Louisiana
Harty v. Harty 2 La. 518 1831 0 Successions, property, partition, community property, wages, dimunition, sales Louisiana
Hodder v. Nelder 2 La. 525 1831 0 Successions, partnerships, wills, property Louisiana
Muggah v. Greig 2 La. 593 1831 0 Sales, petitory action, agency, mandates, delivery, parol evidence, property, successions, contracts Louisiana
Labbe's Heirs v. Abat 2 La. 553 1831 0 Successions, property, community property, divorcesales, simulation, fraud, injunction, partition, consideration, capacity, hypothecary action, adultery, criminal law Louisiana
Taylor v. Penrose 12 La. 137 1838 0 Contracts, sequestration, conditional sale, recission Louisiana
Borel v. Fusillier 2 La. 570 1831 0 Sales, redhibition, warranty, property Louisiana