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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Adams v. Stuart 4 Rob. 180 1843 0 Possessory action, tutorship Louisiana
Sides v. Nettles 4 Rob. 170 1843 0 Successions, property, prescription, wills Louisiana
Penny v. Weston 4 Rob. 165 1843 0 Successions, community property, partition, mortgages Louisiana
Ogden v. Michel 4 Rob. 155 1843 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Bissell v. Leftwich 4 Rob. 102 1843 0 Prescription, contracts, usufruct Louisiana
Davis v. Thompson 9 Rob. 198 1844 0 Successions, property, community property Louisiana
Whitaker v. Carter 26 N.C. 461 1844 1 North Carolina
State v. Lytle 27 N.C. 58 1844 1 North Carolina
Fink v. Martin 8 Rob. 256 1844 0 Property, seizure, sales, mortgages, fraud, simulation, fieri facias Louisiana
Wilson v. Craighead 6 Rob. 429 1844 0 Successions, tutorship, fraud, property, sales, prescription Louisiana
Hills v. Jacobs 7 La. 406 1844 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, sales, privileges Louisiana
Rhodes v. Union Bank 7 La. 63 1844 0 Forced heirs, successions, property, mortgages Louisiana
Penny v. Christmas 7 La. 481 1844 0 Successions, community property, sales, privileges, sequestration, conflict of laws Louisiana
Bailey v. Stevens 9 Rob. 158 1844 0 Property, torts Louisiana
Jenkins v. Thenet 9 Rob. 34 1844 0 Successions, fraud, sales, property, conflict of laws Louisiana
Lawrence v. Guice 9 Rob. 219 1844 0 Community property, successions, privileges, syndic Louisiana
New Orleans Gas Light & Banking Co. v. Botts 9 Rob. 305 1844 0 Redhibition, sales, runaway enslaved person, recission, warranty Louisiana
De Blanc v. Mouton 9 Rob. 48 1844 0 Community property, debts, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
Jenkins v. Dutel 9 Rob. 36 1844 0 Property, successions Louisiana
Stafford v. Mead 9 Rob. 142 1844 0 Community property, sales, seizure, mortgages, damages, privileges Louisiana