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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Perry v. Commissioners for the Liquidation of the Clinton & Port Hudson Rail Road 11 Rob. 412 1845 0 Separation of powers, forfeiture, liquidation, property, sales, bonds Louisiana
Priestley v. Bisland 9 Rob. 425 1845 0 Partnerships, property, privileges, notice, service Louisiana
Dumas v. Lefebvre 10 Rob. 399 1845 0 Seizure, sales, debts, property, revocatory action, fraud Louisiana
Haley v. Dubois 10 Rob. 54 1845 0 Sales, mortgages, property Louisiana
Grant v. Hurst 10 Rob. 422 1845 0 Sales, property, fraud, simulation Louisiana
Hagan v. Ocean Insurance 10 Rob. 333 1845 0 Mutiny, insurance policy Louisiana
Fink v. Martin 10 Rob. 147 1845 0 Successions, mortgages, suretyship, seizure, sales, sequestration Louisiana
Ross v. Garlick 10 Rob. 365 1845 0 Sales, property, promissory notes, mortgages, privileges, leases, damages, contracts Louisiana
Seamans v. White 8 Ala. 656 1845 1 Alabama
Sowell v. Cox 10 Rob. 68 1845 0 Mortgages, community property, promissory notes, sales, seizure, obligations, contracts, privileges Louisiana
Boyers v. Vinson 9 Rob. 518 1845 0 Sales, donations, simulation, fraud, successions, prescription Louisiana
State v. Judge of Fourth Judicial District 10 Rob. 169 1845 0 Property, seizure, injunctions, trespass Louisiana
Andrews v. Ocean Insurance 10 Rob. 332 1845 0 Mutiny, insurance policy Louisiana
Johnson v. Ocean Insurance 10 Rob. 334 1845 0 Mutiny, insurance policy Louisiana
Adams ex rel. United States v. Avery 9 Rob. 431 1845 0 Promissory notes, seizure, sales, property, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Graves v. Hemken 12 La. 103 1845 0 Seizure, property, wills, successions, conflict of laws, damages Louisiana
Whiting v. Prentice 12 La. 141 1845 0 Privileges, property, sales, obligations, fraud, prescription, revocatory action, debts, mortgages Louisiana
Fabre v. Sparks 12 La. 31 1845 0 Successions, community property, wills Louisiana
Compton v. Prescott 12 La. 56 1845 0 Successions, capacity, marriage, wills, property, legitimacy, onerous contracts, testamentary intent, partition Louisiana
Perry v. Commissioners for the Liquidation of the Clinton & Port Hudson Rail Road 11 Rob. 404 1845 0 Liquidation, mortgages, privileges, separation of powers, property, pledges Louisiana