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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
de Lalande v. Bormeau 1 Rob. 315 1842 0 Wills, property, emancipation, sales, contracts, recission, capacity Louisiana
Maria v. Edwards 1 Rob. 359 1842 0 Freedom suit, wills, emancipation, witness testimony Louisiana
Thibodeaux v. Thomasson 1 Rob. 376 1842 0 Property, simulation, seizure, sales, contracts Louisiana
Hart v. Foley 1 Rob. 378 1842 0 Community property, promissory notes, property, obligations, privileges, fieri facias, sales, successions, mortgages, prescription, partition Louisiana
Saulet v. Trepagnier 2 Rob. 357 1842 0 Promissory notes, sales, property Louisiana
State ex rel. Hutchins v. Holcombe 24 N.C. 211 1842 1 North Carolina
Byrne v. Taylor 2 Rob. 341 1842 0 Injunction, sales, mortgages, privileges, writ of fifa, property, seizure Louisiana
Duncan v. Sparrow 3 Rob. 164 1842 1 Louisiana
Kemp v. Womack 1 Rob. 369 1842 0 Successions, prescription, adverse possession Louisiana
Wherry v. Bell 2 Rob. 225 1842 0 Successions, sales, property, debts, seizure Louisiana
President of the Bank of the United States v. Merle 2 Rob. 117 1842 0 Damages, service, notice Louisiana
Noble v. Nettles 3 Rob. 152 1842 0 Seizure, sales, property, bonds, successions Louisiana
Harlin v. Léglise 3 Rob. 194 1842 0 Donations, community property Louisiana
Lebesque v. Bonin 3 Rob. 12 1842 0 Redhibition, sales Louisiana
Puckett v. Clarke 3 Rob. 81 1842 0 Petitory action, fraud, successions, conflict of laws, community property Louisiana
Womack v. Nicholson 3 Rob. 248 1842 0 Damages, torts, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Galpin v. Jessup 3 Rob. 90 1842 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, warranty Louisiana
Tippett v. Jett 3 Rob. 313 1842 0 Successions, community property, fraud, prescription Louisiana
Hivert v. Lacaze 3 Rob. 357 1842 0 Redhibition, sales, warranty, fraud Louisiana
Tollett v. Jones 3 Rob. 274 1842 0 Successions, property, prescription Louisiana