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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Spurlock v. Mainer 1 La. Ann. 301 1846 0 Community property, mortgages, successions, sales, privileges, hypothecary action, fieri facias, contracts Louisiana
Erwin v. Lowry 1 La. Ann. 276 1846 0 Successions, administrators, mortgages, promissory notes, property, sales, intervenor, jurisdiction Louisiana
Lee v. Lee 1 La. Ann. 318 1846 0 Sales, conflict of laws, intervenor, witness testimony, interrogatories, property Louisiana
Rost v. Henderson 12 La. 549 1846 0 Wills, partition, emancipation, manumission Louisiana
Beaumon v. Thomas 1 La. Ann. 284 1846 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, property, privileges, sequestration, pledges, sales, obligations, contracts Louisiana
Copley v. Ross 1 La. Ann. 310 1846 0 Seizure, property, damages, slander, sales Louisiana
Keller v. McCalop 12 La. 639 1846 0 Wills, emancipation, property, capacity Louisiana
Collier v. His Creditors 12 La. 398 1846 0 Mortgages, property, seizure, sales, promissory notes, prescription, privileges Louisiana
McFarlane v. Richardson 1 La. Ann. 12 1846 0 Mortgages, seizure, sales, sequestration Louisiana
Bank of Louisiana v. Farrar 1 La. Ann. 49 1846 0 Bonds, mortgages, community property, contracts, capacity, obligations Louisiana
Cottle v. Wilson 1 La. Ann. 4 1846 0 Sales, warranty, redhibition, witness testimony Louisiana
Foster v. Ferguson 1 La. Ann. 262 1846 0 Community property, conflict of laws, usufruct, successions, capacity, tutorship Louisiana
Grand Gulf Railroad & Banking v. Stanbrough 1 La. Ann. 261 1846 0 Promissory notes, consideration, property, contracts, conflict of laws Louisiana
Lefebvre v. De Montilly 1 La. Ann. 42 1846 0 Sales, property, fraud, res judicata Louisiana
Josephine v. Poultney 1 La. Ann. 329 1846 0 Conflict of laws, freedom suit Louisiana
Miller v. Andrus 1 La. Ann. 237 1846 0 Successions, donation inter vivos, property, obligations Louisiana
Stevens v. Wellington 1 La. Ann. 72 1846 0 Petitory action, sales, property, runaway enslaved person, contracts, garnishment, agency, delivery, torts Louisiana
Mercier v. Canonge 12 La. 385 1846 0 Successions, privileges, liquidation, community property, sales, tutorship Louisiana
Michel v. Dolliole 1 La. Ann. 459 1846 0 Emancipation, successions, sales, property, delivery Louisiana
Baudoin v. Nicolas 12 La. 594 1846 0 Privileges, property, seizure, sales, witness testimony Louisiana