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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Penniman v. Richardson 3 La. 101 1831 0 Injunction, bonds, property, suretyship, damages, reconventional demand, seizure, debts Louisiana
Madry v. Young 3 La. 160 1831 0 Recordation, sales, parol evidence, conflict of laws, delivery, petitory action, contracts Louisiana
Dranguet v. Prudhomme 3 La. 74 1831 0 Property, contracts, sales, seizure, capacity, mortgages, recission, community property, emancipation, recordation, mandates Louisiana
Petit v. His Creditors 3 La. 26 1831 0 Mortgages, privileges, sales, property, debts, consideration, fraud, recordation, contracts Louisiana
Torrance v. Hurst 1 Miss. 403 1831 1 Mississippi
Phillips v. Flint 3 La. 146 1831 0 Successions, property, mortgages, debts, privileges, res judicata, petitory action, partition, seizure Louisiana
Rils v. Questi 2 La. 249 1831 0 Successions, sales, property, debts Louisiana
Baines v. Higgins 2 La. 220 1831 0 Sales, parol evidence Louisiana
Couch v. Hooper 29 Va. 557 1831 1 Virginia
Jackson ex dem. Bradstreet v. Huntington 30 U.S. 402 1831 1 United States
Woodbridge v. Cook 5 Blume Sup. Ct. Trans. 543 1831 1 Michigan
Bishop's Ex'or v. Bishop 29 Va. 484 1831 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Doswell v. Buchanan's Ex'ors 30 Va. 365 1831 1 Virginia
Parter v. The Friendship 18 F. Cas. 1271 1831 0 Suit for salvage of alleged slave ship United States
Gilbert v. Ward 4 D.C. 171 1831 0 Freedom Petition United States
Christian v. Coleman's Adm'r 30 Va. 30 1831 1 Virginia
Burwell's Ex'ors v. Anderson 30 Va. 348 1831 0 Suit in chancery SC of Appeals VA
Gregory v. Baugh 29 Va. 665 1831 0 Action of freedom SC of Appeals VA
Woodruff v. Bentley 30 F. Cas. 521 1831 0 Property dispute Arkansas
Town of East-Hartford v. Pitkin 8 Conn. 393 1831 0 Action in support of slave Connecticut