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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Bennett v. Black 1 Stew. 39 1827 0 Action for Stealing an Enslaved Person Alabama
Den ex. dem. of Tayloe v. Gaskins 12 N.C. 295 1827 1 North Carolina
Friedley v. Hamilton 17 Serg. & Rawle 70 1827 1 Pennsylvania
Raborg’s Adm'x. v. Hammond's Adm'r. 2 H. & G. 42 1827 0 Maryland
Hanes v. Peck's lessee 8 Tenn. 228 1827 1 Tennessee
Johnson v. Field 5 Mart. (n.s.) 635 1827 0 Petitory action, property, sales Louisiana
Barfield v. Hewlett 6 Mart. (n.s.) 78 1827 0 Property, petitory action, sales Louisiana
Bonnet v. Ramsay 6 Mart. (n.s.) 129 1827 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, prescription, runaway ensalved person Louisiana
Martel v. Tureaud's Estate 6 Mart. (n.s.) 118 1827 0 Mortgages, privileges, property, sales, promissory notes Louisiana
Mathurin v. Livaudais 5 Mart. (n.s.) 301 1827 0 Capacity, wills, property, emancipation, trusts, donations Louisiana
Yocum v. Bullit 6 Mart. (n.s.) 324 1827 0 Seizure, sales, damages, property, fraud, simulation, donations, recordation Louisiana
Thatcher v. Walden 5 Mart. (n.s.) 495 1827 0 Petitory action, property, sales, mandates, conflict of laws, contracts Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 5 Mart. (n.s.) 517 1827 0 Injunction, property, mortgages, seizure, wills, recordation, conflict of laws Louisiana
Coleman v. Breaud 6 Mart. (n.s.) 207 1827 0 Property, conflict of laws, petitory action, evidence Louisiana
Abadie v. Poydras 6 Mart. (n.s.) 26 1827 0 Injunction, seizure, mortgages, debts, property, community property Louisiana
Broussard v. Philips 6 Mart. (n.s.) 309 1827 0 Sales, mortgages, property, debts Louisiana
Davison v. Chabres' Heirs 6 Mart. (n.s.) 317 1827 0 Successions, sales, subrogation, property, debts, prescription, community property Louisiana
Overton v. Gervais 5 Mart. (n.s.) 682 1827 0 Obligations, debts, property, reconventional demand, redhibition, fraud, contracts, breach Louisiana
Erwin v. Porter 6 Mart. (n.s.) 166 1827 0 Property, seizure, sales, eviction, contracts Louisiana
Hamilton v. Hamilton 6 Mart. (n.s.) 143 1827 0 Partition, successions, capacity, wills, property, mortgages, sales, collation Louisiana