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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Marie v. Avart's Heirs 10 Mart. (o.s.) 25 1821 0 Wills, capacity, emancipation, newly discovered evidence, parol evidence, successions Louisiana
Miltenberger v. Canon 10 Mart. (o.s.) 85 1821 0 Sales, breach, promissory notes, title Louisiana
Broh v. Jenkins 9 Mart. (o.s.) 526 1821 0 Successions, sales, prescription, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
St. Avid v. Weimprender's Syndics 9 Mart. (o.s.) 648 1821 0 Privileges, property, intervenor, syndics, seizure, sales, witness testimony Louisiana
Vienne v. Boissier 10 Mart. (o.s.) 359 1821 0 Successions, renunciation, property, sales, injunction Louisiana
Livingston v. Heerman 9 Mart. (o.s.) 656 1821 0 Libel, water law, reparations, defamation, property, sales, riparian rights Louisiana
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 308 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, indemnification Louisiana
Peabody v. Carrol 9 Mart. (o.s.) 295 1821 0 Seizure, property, sales, delivery, contracts, conflict of laws Louisiana
Fleming v. Lockart 10 Mart. (o.s.) 398 1821 0 Damages, sales, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, recission, indeminification Louisiana
Brown v. Compton 10 Mart. (o.s.) 425 1821 0 Fraud, runaway enslaved person, manumission, sales, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Pelletreau v. Rathbone 18 Johns. 428 1821 0 SC of New York
Shockley v. Traverse 2 Del. Cas. 673 1821 0 Question of whether an illegal exportation of an enslaved woman who was freed at a time but sold prior to that period Delaware
Ellis v. Wootten 2 Del. Cas. 625 1821 0 Action against man who failed to deliver an enslaved individual Delaware
Alexander v. Stokely 7 Serg. & Rawle 299 1821 0 Recovery for services SC of PA.
Butler v. Delaplaine 7 Serg. & Rawle 378 1821 0 Lease dispute SC of PA.
Costin v. Corporation of Washington 2 D.C. 254 1821 0 Municipal Corporations United States
Garretson v. Lingan 2 D.C. 236 1821 0 Freedom Petition United States
Edmondson v. Barrell 8 F. Cas. 322 1821 1 United States
Read v. Consequa 20 F. Cas. 350 1821 1 United States
Judah v. Harris 19 Johns. 144 1821 1 New York