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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Penny v. Christmas 7 La. 481 1844 0 Successions, community property, sales, privileges, sequestration, conflict of laws Louisiana
Rhodes v. Union Bank 7 La. 63 1844 0 Forced heirs, successions, property, mortgages Louisiana
Hills v. Jacobs 7 La. 406 1844 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, sales, privileges Louisiana
Wilson v. Craighead 6 Rob. 429 1844 0 Successions, tutorship, fraud, property, sales, prescription Louisiana
Dash v. Dosson 6 Rob. 11 1843 0 Property, petitory action, wills, successions, parol evidence Louisiana
Winston v. Foster 5 Rob. 113 1843 0 Torts, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Allen v. Allen 6 Rob. 104 1843 0 Sales, community property, successions, conflict of laws Louisiana
In re the Tutorship of Virginia Kershaw 5 Rob. 488 1843 0 Tutorship, successions, competency, witness testimony, property Louisiana
Arrieux v. Dugas 5 Rob. 453 1843 0 Property, successions, community property, sales, mortgages, privileges, seizure, subrogation, res judicata Louisiana
Carson v. Dwight 5 Rob. 484 1843 0 Sales, seizure, conflict of laws, emancipation, reconventional demand Louisiana
Smith v. Scott 3 Rob. 258 1842 0 Promissory notes, suretyship, property, successions, privileges Louisiana
Bookout v. Anderson 3 Rob. 290 1842 0 Petitory action, fraud, theft, debts, mortgages, property Louisiana
Gros v. Bienvenu 3 Rob. 396 1843 0 Sales, redhibition, fraud, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Succession of Weil 24 La. Ann. 139 1872 0 Contracts - consideration of slave Louisiana
Adams v. Lear 3 La. Ann. 144 1848 0 Sales, property, mortgages, promissory notes, privileges, partition Louisiana
Clark v. State Bank 3 La. Ann. 325 1848 0 Judicial seizure, sales, fraud, simulation Louisiana
Burton v. Chaney 3 La. Ann. 338 1848 0 Promissory notes, property, sales, prescription, contracts Louisiana
State v. Lewis 3 La. Ann. 398 1848 0 Criminal law, muder, habeas corpus, statutory interpretation Louisiana
Davis v. Janin 3 La. Ann. 712 1848 0 Sales, promissory notes, runaway enslaved person, redhibition Louisiana
Consolidated Ass'n v. Comeau 3 La. Ann. 552 1848 0 Prescription, bonds, obligations, leases, mortgages, stocks, successions, intervenor, hypothecary action, preemption, sales, property Louisiana