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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type ▼ Jurisdiction
Heirs of Kempe v. Hunt 4 La. 477 1832 0 Hypothecary action, partnerships, successions, sales, property, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Casanova's Heirs v. Avegno 9 La. 192 1836 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, successions, privileges, property, community property, sales Louisiana
Taylor v. Rostrop 3 La. Ann. 100 1848 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, sales, emancipation Louisiana
Cable v. Syndic of Hazleton's Estate 4 La. 560 1832 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, property, syndic, community property, sales, privileges Louisiana
Delahoussaye v. Delacroix 4 La. 371 1832 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, property, privileges, sales, discussion, prescription, seizure Louisiana
Gale v. Matta 7 La. Ann. 140 1852 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, marital property, inheritance Louisiana
Farrar v. Rowly 2 La. Ann. 475 1847 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, community property, stocks, seizure, sales, privileges, contracts Louisiana
Cable v. Coe 4 La. 554 1832 0 Hypothecary action, mortgages, community property, property, privileges, sales, fraud, successions Louisiana
Taylor, Hadden & Co. v. Pearce 15 La. Ann. 564 1860 0 Hypothecary Action, Mortgage, Property, Louisiana
Spencer v. Amis 12 La. Ann. 127 1857 0 Hypothecary action, judicial lien, mortgages, property Louisiana
Woodward v. Dashiell 15 La. 184 1840 0 Hypothecary action, debts, mortgages, property, seizure, sales, damages, privileges, injunction Louisiana
Kemp v. Rowly 2 La. Ann. 316 1847 0 Hyopthecary action, partition, property, sales, mortgages, promissory notes, tutorship, prescription Louisiana
Friley v. White 31 Miss. 442 1856 0 Husbands right to enslaved woman belonging to wife Mississippi
Sanderson v. Jones 6 Fla. 430 1855 0 Husband's Conveyance Power Supreme Court of FL
Lacoste v. Pipkin 21 Miss. 589 1850 0 Human trafficking action Mississippi
Hall's Heirs v. Hall's Executors 38 Ala. 131 1861 0 Human trafficking action Alabama
United States v. Gordon 25 F. Cas. 1364 1861 0 Human trafficking Circuit Court, S.D. New York
Olive v. Walton 33 Miss. 103 1857 0 How separate estate of wife descends Mississippi
Barksdale v. Elam 30 Miss. 694 1856 0 How illegal condition affects a contract Mississippi
Epperson v. Young 19 Tex. 475 1857 0 Hostile posession of slaves Texas