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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Smith v. Bradford 17 La. 263 1841 0 Seizure, sales, property, mortgages, privileges, hypothecary action, damages Louisiana
Foley v. Dufour 17 La. 521 1841 0 Mortgages, hypothecary action, sales, seizure, mortgages, property, syndic Louisiana
Lapice v. Clifton 17 La. 152 1841 0 Property, sales, promissory notes, Louisiana
Rouanet v. Hunt 17 La. 407 1841 0 Donations, delivery, successions Louisiana
Barataria & Lafourche Canal Co. v. Field 17 La. 421 1841 0 Damages, labor, community property, witness testimony Louisiana
Haralson v. Camp 17 La. 267 1841 0 Successions, employment, property, attorney's fees, damages Louisiana
McDonald v. Aubert 17 La. 448 1841 0 Seizure, sales, property, privileges, community property, debts, obligations, mortgages Louisiana
Buel v. New-York Steamer 17 La. 541 1841 0 Runaway enslaved person, sequestration, witness testimony, property, sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Samory v. Hebrard 17 La. 555 1841 0 Fieri facias, property, interrogatories, simulation, fraud, privileges, obligations Louisiana
Thibodeaux v. Thomasson 17 La. 353 1841 0 Property, recission, sales, fraud, simulation, promissory notes, contracts Louisiana
Capdeviel v. Dodd 17 La. 149 1841 0 Promissory notes, sales, successions, consideration, redhibition, recission, witness testimony Louisiana
Bourgeois v. Bourgeois 17 La. 494 1841 0 Fieri facias, seizure, sales, property, community property Louisiana
Stephenson's Administrator v. Addison 17 La. 454 1841 0 Sales, successions, suretyship, obligations, eviction, petitory action Louisiana
Lesseps v. Pontchartrain Railroad 17 La. 361 1841 0 Murder, damages, negligence, torts, contributory negligence Louisiana
Dupuy v. Dashiell 17 La. 60 1841 0 Hypothecary action, sales, property, mortgages, prescription, recordation, privileges Louisiana
Jacobs v. Tricou 17 La. 104 1841 0 Successions, property, community property, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Canty v. Beal 17 La. 282 1841 0 Partnerships, privileges, damages, contracts Louisiana
Nantz v. Wyatt 1 Rob. 10 1841 0 Property, petitory action, sales, consideration, debt Louisiana
Bronaugh v. Neal 1 Rob. 23 1841 0 Suretyship, reconventional demand, promissory notes, contracts, delivery Louisiana
Klady v. McGuire 1 Rob. 25 1841 0 Jurisdiction, sales, criminal law Louisiana