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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Holmes v. Patterson 5 Mart. (o.s.) 693 1818 0 Successions, property, sales, contracts, consideration, donations Louisiana
Hicks v. Calvit 5 Mart. (o.s.) 691 1818 0 Successions, property, community property, intestacy Louisiana
Highlander v. Fluke 5 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1818 0 Property, seizure, sales, consideration, witness testimony, fraud, debts Louisiana
Cuffy v. Castillon 5 Mart. (o.s.) 494 1818 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, contracts, manumission, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
Delacroix v. Orleans Navigation Co. 5 Mart. (o.s.) 507 1818 0 Contracts, wages, recission, obligations Louisiana
Lucile v. Toustin 5 Mart. (o.s.) 611 1818 0 Adverse possession, evidence, sales, prescription, parol evidence, contracts, conflict of laws, best evidence rule Louisiana
Gardner v. Harbour 5 Mart. (o.s.) 408 1818 0 Wills, successions, property, partition Louisiana
Maurin v. Martinez 5 Mart. (o.s.) 432 1818 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, successions, warranty, prescription Louisiana
State v. Edward 5 Mart. (o.s.) 474 1818 0 Libely, sales Louisiana
Pierce v. Grays 5 Mart. (o.s.) 367 1818 0 Sales, property, donations inter vivos, revocation, parol evidence Louisiana
Langlish v. Schons 5 Mart. (o.s.) 405 1818 0 Damages, agency, fraud, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Jourdan v. Patton 5 Mart. (o.s.) 615 1818 0 Torts, damages, indemnification, property Louisiana
Zanico v. Habine 5 Mart. (o.s.) 372 1818 0 Sales, seizure, statutory interpretation, evidence, property, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Vansant v. Money 4 H. & J. 313 1818 0 Maryland
State v. Aaron 4 N.J.L. 231 1818 0 Competency of slave as witness New Jersey
Selden v. Coalter 4 Va. 533 1818 0 Wills & Estate General Ct of VA
Rucker v. Harrison 20 Va. 181 1818 1 Virginia
Campbell v. Staiert 6 N.C. 389 1818 0 Trespass North Carolina
Harrison's Administrator v. Raines's Administratrix 19 Va. 456 1818 1 Virginia
Timberlake v. Graves 20 Va. 174 1818 0 Action of detinue SC of Appeals VA