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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▼ Law Type Jurisdiction
Adams v. Lewis 7 Mart. (n.s.) 400 1829 0 Recission, contracts, sales, property, sequestration, venue, reconventional demand Louisiana
Debora v. Coffin 1 Mart. (o.s.) 40 1809 0 Seizure, mortgages, property, contracts, conflict of laws, privileges, debts Louisiana
Nadaud v. Mitchell 6 Mart. (o.s.) 688 1819 0 Mortgages, sales, community property, property Louisiana
Sterling v. Fusilier 7 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1820 0 Warranty, sales, eviction, suretyship, damages, contracts, property Louisiana
Morgan's Syndics v. Fiveash 7 Mart. (n.s.) 410 1829 0 Torts, damages, negligence, liability Louisiana
Saul v. His Creditors 7 Mart. (n.s.) 425 1829 0 Sales, syndics, successions, property, privileges, mortgages Louisiana
Lawes v. Chinn 4 Mart. (n.s.) 388 1826 0 Sales, injunction, capacity, property, debts, mortgages Louisiana
Castellano v. Peillon 2 Mart. (n.s.) 466 1824 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, runaway enslaved person, warranty Louisiana
Pierce v. Grays 5 Mart. (o.s.) 367 1818 0 Sales, property, donations inter vivos, revocation, parol evidence Louisiana
Zanico v. Habine 5 Mart. (o.s.) 372 1818 0 Sales, seizure, statutory interpretation, evidence, property, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Clark's Heirs v. Barham's Heirs 4 Mart. (n.s.) 411 1826 0 Successions, wills, prescription, property Louisiana
Gosselin v. Gosselin 7 Mart. (n.s.) 469 1829 0 Successions, property, partition Louisiana
Gardere v. Fisk 6 Mart. (n.s.) 387 1828 0 Injunction, sales, mortgages, debts, parol evidence Louisiana
Marie v. Avart 6 Mart. (o.s.) 731 1819 0 Wills, emancipation, freedom suit, sales Louisiana
Hernandez v. Garetage 4 Mart. (n.s.) 419 1826 0 Property, forced heir, successions, fraud, wills Louisiana
Gayoso v. Wikoff 7 Mart. (n.s.) 486 1829 0 Fraud, petitory action, damages, sequestration, reconventional demand, property, possessory action Louisiana
Ulzire v. Poeyfarre 2 Mart. (n.s.) 504 1824 0 Freedom suit Louisiana
Langlish v. Schons 5 Mart. (o.s.) 405 1818 0 Damages, agency, fraud, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Newcombe v. Skipwith 1 Mart. (o.s.) 151 1810 0 Property, debts, attachment, treaties, territorial boundaries Louisiana
Dormenon's Case 1 Mart. (o.s.) 129 1810 0 Mutiny, witness testimony, impeachment Louisiana