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Case Name Citation Year ▼ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Zanico v. Habine 5 Mart. (o.s.) 372 1818 0 Sales, seizure, statutory interpretation, evidence, property, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person 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
Pierce v. Grays 5 Mart. (o.s.) 367 1818 0 Sales, property, donations inter vivos, revocation, parol evidence Louisiana
Hicks v. Calvit 5 Mart. (o.s.) 691 1818 0 Successions, property, community property, intestacy 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
Mayes v. Calvit 5 Mart. (o.s.) 669 1818 0 Sales, delivery, consideration, promissory notes, property, seizure, evidence Louisiana
Jourdan v. Patton 5 Mart. (o.s.) 615 1818 0 Torts, damages, indemnification, property Louisiana
Langlish v. Schons 5 Mart. (o.s.) 405 1818 0 Damages, agency, fraud, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Metayer v. Noret 5 Mart. (o.s.) 566 1818 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, intervenor, evidence, seizure, property, conflict of laws, prescription Louisiana
Cuffy v. Castillon 5 Mart. (o.s.) 494 1818 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, contracts, manumission, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
Conner v. Shepherd 15 Mass. 164 1818 1 Massachusetts
Bayon v. Tricou 5 Mart. (o.s.) 1 1817 0 Property, sales, recission Louisiana
Gale v. Davis' heirs 4 Mart. (o.s.) 645 1817 0 Successions, partition, wills, property, community property, mortgages, sales, damages Louisiana
Fortier v. M'Donogh 4 Mart. (o.s.) 718 1817 0 Wages, labor, damages, contracts Louisiana
Seville v. Chretien 5 Mart. (o.s.) 275 1817 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, res judicata, witness testimony, Louisiana
Foster v. Dupre 5 Mart. (o.s.) 6 1817 0 Property, libel, seizure, contracts, assumption, consideration, damages, torts Louisiana
Bayon v. Mollere 4 Mart. (o.s.) 621 1817 0 Petitory action, damages, sales, evidence Louisiana
Cooley v. Lawrence 4 Mart. (o.s.) 639 1817 0 Sales, promissory notes, contracts, debts, evidence, obligations, suretyship, indemnification, privileges Louisiana
Trudeau's Ex'r. v. Robinette 4 Mart. (o.s.) 577 1817 0 Successions, emancipation, sales, freedom suit, property, evidence Louisiana