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Case Name Citation ▲ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Keys v. Nettles 12 La. 381 1838 0 Petitory action, community property, capacity Louisiana
Leeds v. Yeatman 12 La. 383 1838 0 Seizure, sales, property, injunction, suretyship Louisiana
Mercier v. Canonge 12 La. 385 1846 0 Successions, privileges, liquidation, community property, sales, tutorship Louisiana
Clark v. Christine 12 La. 394 1838 0 Community property, fraud, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Chabert v. Beard 12 La. 397 1846 0 Community property, mortgages, promissory notes Louisiana
Collier v. His Creditors 12 La. 398 1846 0 Mortgages, property, seizure, sales, promissory notes, prescription, privileges Louisiana
Arthur v. Cochran 12 La. 41 1845 1 Louisiana
Vawter v. Gill 12 La. 423 1838 0 Promissory notes, sales, redhibition, recission, damages Louisiana
Cuny v. Robert 12 La. 474 1838 0 Sales, petitory action, warranty, promissory notes Louisiana
Gorton v. Gorton's Executor 12 La. 476 1838 0 Injunction, seizure, sales, mortgages, successions, property, promissory notes, suretyship Louisiana
State v. Thomas 12 La. 48 1845 0 Statutory interpretation, wills, property, criminal law Louisiana
Pralon v. Aymard 12 La. 487 1846 0 Sales, privileges, mortgages, promissory notes Louisiana
Dreux v. Kennedy 12 La. 489 1846 1 Louisiana
Succession of Dubreuil 12 La. 507 1846 1 Louisiana
Chapelle v. Lemane 12 La. 519 1846 1 Louisiana
Escurieux v. Chapdu 12 La. 520 1846 0 Seizure, successions, witness testimony, sales, promissory notes Louisiana
Welsh v. Shields 12 La. 527 1846 1 Louisiana
White v. M'Quillan 12 La. 530 1838 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, seizure, sales, peremptory exception, debts, prescription, property Louisiana
Nolan v. Babin 12 La. 531 1846 0 Seizure, property, sales, partition, damages Louisiana
Webb v. Goodby 12 La. 539 1846 0 Successions, partition, donation inter vivos, emancipation Louisiana