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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Armor v. Huie 14 La. 346 1840 0 Sales, recission, redhibition Louisiana
Watkinson v. Black 14 La. 351 1840 0 Agency, sales, domicil, sequestration Louisiana
Burton's Heirs v. Burton 14 La. 352 1840 0 Successions, property, debts, partition, doncations Louisiana
Dwight & Hartman 16 La. 145 1840 0 revocatory action, property, debts, sales, fraud, promissory notes, privileges Louisiana
M'Donough v. Childress 15 La. 556 1840 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, prescription, property Louisiana
Tompkins v. Benjamin 16 La. 197 1840 0 Property, successions, tutorship Louisiana
Zeringue v. Rixner 14 La. 385 1840 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, seizure, sales, property Louisiana
Collings v. Hamilton 14 La. 343 1840 0 Contracts, employment, wages, witness testimony Louisiana
Minor v. Lancashire 5 Miss. 347 1840 0 Forfeiture of property dispute Mississippi
Lee v. Pindle 11 G. & J. 362 1840 0 Maryland
Garrott v. Johnson 11 G. & J. 173 1840 0 Maryland
Maloney v. Doane 15 La. 278 1840 0 Torts, slander, jury instructions, malice, evidence, witness testimony, damages Louisiana
Le Blanc v. His Creditors 16 La. 120 1840 0 Mortgages, property, debts, successions, syndic, privileges, tutorship Louisiana
Ball's Administratrix v. Ball 15 La. 173 1840 1 Louisiana
Nelson v. Lillard 16 La. 336 1840 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, damages, warranty, mortgages, promissory notes Louisiana
Barnett v. Macoin 14 La. 428 1840 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, criminal law Louisiana
Hood v. M'Corkle 16 La. 240 1840 0 Murder, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Douthitt's Administrator v. Douthitt 1 Ala. 594 1840 0 Property dispute Alabama
Cuny v. Robert 16 La. 175 1840 0 Sales, petitory action, delivery, warranty, mandate, agency, prescription, property Louisiana
Pond v. Griffin 1 Ala. 678 1840 0 Levy on enslaved persons Alabama