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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) ▲ Law Type Jurisdiction
Landry v. Segond 15 La. 154 1840 0 Community property, property, mortgages, seizure, sales, privileges, prescription, injunction Louisiana
Woodward v. Dashiell 15 La. 184 1840 0 Hypothecary action, debts, mortgages, property, seizure, sales, damages, privileges, injunction Louisiana
Dupuy v. Dashiell 17 La. 60 1841 0 Hypothecary action, sales, property, mortgages, prescription, recordation, privileges Louisiana
Lesseps v. Pontchartrain Railroad 17 La. 361 1841 0 Murder, damages, negligence, torts, contributory negligence Louisiana
Bourgeois v. Bourgeois 17 La. 494 1841 0 Fieri facias, seizure, sales, property, community property Louisiana
McDonald v. Aubert 17 La. 448 1841 0 Seizure, sales, property, privileges, community property, debts, obligations, mortgages Louisiana
Newman v. Baer 50 La. Ann. 323 1897 0 Louisiana
Barriere F. W. C. v. Gladding's Curator 17 La. 144 1841 0 Promissory notes, capacity, property, contracts Louisiana
Copeland v. Mickie 17 La. 286 1841 0 Partnerships, property, sales, duress, extortion, recission, damages Louisiana
Janin v. Franklin 4 La. 198 1833 0 Recission, sales Louisiana
Hawkins v. Brown 7 La. 417 1834 0 Successions, suretyship, sales, promissory notes, redhibition, recission, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Niblett v. White's Heirs 7 La. 253 1834 0 Damages, successions, negligence, loans Louisiana
Flint v. Cuny 7 La. 379 1834 0 Syndic, sales, recission, property, successions, prescription Louisiana
Liles v. Rhodes 7 La. 87 1834 0 Property, sales, seizure, damages, fieri facias, privileges, debts Louisiana
Hewet & Co. v. Wilson 7 La. 71 1834 0 Theft, liability, damages Louisiana
Mary v. Morris 7 La. 135 1834 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, wills, sales, damages, sequestration, conflict of laws, successions, property, manumission Louisiana
Robin v. Castille 7 La. 292 1834 0 Successions, property, mortgages, community property, debts, renunciation Louisiana
Andrus v. Chretien 7 La. 318 1834 0 Debts, suretyship, contracts, sales, seizure, successions, prescription, mortgages Louisiana
Le Blanc v. His Creditors 16 La. 120 1840 0 Mortgages, property, debts, successions, syndic, privileges, tutorship Louisiana
A. Bonnafe & Co. v. Lane 5 La. 225 1850 0 Mortgages, sales, property, recordation, privileges, conflict of laws, obligations Louisiana