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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
M'Micken v. Smith 5 Mart. (n.s.) 427 1827 0 Service, promissory notes, notice, sales, obligations, suretyship, capacity Louisiana
Erwin v. Porter 6 Mart. (n.s.) 166 1827 0 Property, seizure, sales, eviction, contracts Louisiana
Gill v. Phillips 6 Mart. (n.s.) 298 1827 0 Property, successions, partition, sales, sequestration, debts, fraud Louisiana
Bonnet v. Ramsay 6 Mart. (n.s.) 129 1827 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, prescription, runaway ensalved person Louisiana
Levesque v. Anderson 6 Mart. (n.s.) 293 1827 0 Suretyship, property, recission, sales, successions, redhibition Louisiana
Barbarin v. Saucier 5 Mart. (n.s.) 361 1827 0 Seizure, property, simulation, sales, fraud, privileges Louisiana
Roberts v. Kinchen 5 Mart. (n.s.) 419 1827 0 Injunction, successions, sales, property Louisiana
Thatcher v. Walden 5 Mart. (n.s.) 495 1827 0 Petitory action, property, sales, mandates, conflict of laws, contracts Louisiana
Erwin v. Fenwick 6 Mart. (n.s.) 229 1827 0 Property, promissory notes, sales, damages, breach, contracts, specific performance, obligations, debts Louisiana
Hamilton v. Hamilton 6 Mart. (n.s.) 143 1827 0 Partition, successions, capacity, wills, property, mortgages, sales, collation Louisiana
Beon v. Morgan 5 Mart. (n.s.) 701 1827 0 Seizure, successions, partition, property, possessory action Louisiana
Overton v. Gervais 5 Mart. (n.s.) 682 1827 0 Obligations, debts, property, reconventional demand, redhibition, fraud, contracts, breach Louisiana
Davison v. Chabres' Heirs 6 Mart. (n.s.) 317 1827 0 Successions, sales, subrogation, property, debts, prescription, community property Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 5 Mart. (n.s.) 517 1827 0 Injunction, property, mortgages, seizure, wills, recordation, conflict of laws Louisiana
United States v. Birch 3 D.C. 180 1827 0 Witnesses/Evidence United States
Lee v. Preuss 3 D.C. 112 1827 0 Freedom Petition United States
Mandeville v. Cookenderfer 3 D.C. 257 1827 0 Negligence United States
Toulmin v. Buchanan's Executors 1 Stew. 67 1827 0 Trover Alabama
Mitchell v. Wilson 3 D.C. 92 1827 0 Replevin United States
Warren v. Brooks 7 Cow. 218 1827 0 Failure to obtain certificate of "slave's ability to maintain himself" pursuant to statute prior to freeing slave SC of New York