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Case Name Citation ▲ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Brou v. Kohn 12 La. 102 1838 0 Community property, mortgages, seizure, sales, recordation, debts Louisiana
Graves v. Hemken 12 La. 103 1845 0 Seizure, property, wills, successions, conflict of laws, damages Louisiana
Mayo v. Stroud 12 La. 105 1845 0 Successions, sales, seizure, partition, peremptory exceptions, property, fraud Louisiana
Langley's Heirs v. Langley's Executors 12 La. 114 1838 0 Wills, capacity, validity, nullity, emancipation Louisiana
Ex parte Groves 12 La. 130 1845 1 Louisiana
Taylor v. Penrose 12 La. 137 1838 0 Contracts, sequestration, conditional sale, recission Louisiana
Merrill v. Lattimore 12 La. 138 1845 1 Louisiana
Whiting v. Prentice 12 La. 141 1845 0 Privileges, property, sales, obligations, fraud, prescription, revocatory action, debts, mortgages Louisiana
Van Winckle v. Flecheaux 12 La. 148 1838 0 Seizure, sales, property, injunction, sequestration, mortgages, privileges Louisiana
Hampton's Heirs v. Barrett 12 La. 159 1838 0 Property, sales, privileges, recission, debts Louisiana
Edwards v. Burroughs 12 La. 171 1845 0 Property, sales, redhibition, recission Louisiana
Blount v. Syms 12 La. 173 1838 0 Property, successions, contracts, petitory action, community property Louisiana
Succession of Stafford 12 La. 178 1845 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, successions, sales Louisiana
Oliver v. Williams 12 La. 180 1845 1 Louisiana
Hemken v. Ludewig 12 La. 188 1845 0 Successions, community property, mortgages, privileges, donations Louisiana
Tournoir v. Tournoir 12 La. 19 1838 0 Successions, property, debts, testamentary dispositions Louisiana
Lopez's Heirs v. Bergel 12 La. 197 1838 0 Promissory notes, prescription, property, fraud, simulation, obligations, sales, privileges Louisiana
Smith v. Berwick 12 La. 20 1845 0 Sales, fraud, mortgages, damages, contracts, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
Seghers v. Schmidt 12 La. 207 1838 0 Marriage, property, donations, successions, partition Louisiana
Hood v. Segrest 12 La. 210 1845 0 Possessory action, petitory action, sales, mortgages, property, prescription Louisiana