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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Hampton's Heirs v. Barrett 12 La. 159 1838 0 Property, sales, privileges, recission, debts Louisiana
Muse v. Yarbórough 11 La. 521 1838 0 Property, mortgages, promissory notes, seizure, sales, fraud, syndic, prescription, contracts, community property Louisiana
George v. Fitzgerald 12 La. 604 1838 0 Redhibition, sales, recission, warranty, damages, personal jurisdiction, property, prescription Louisiana
Levy v. Levy 11 La. 577 1838 0 Property, partnerships, successions, donations, simulation, fraud, donations Louisiana
Lopez's Heirs v. Bergel 12 La. 197 1838 0 Promissory notes, prescription, property, fraud, simulation, obligations, sales, privileges Louisiana
Mason v. Mason's Widow & Heirs 12 La. 589 1838 0 Partition, successions, property, donations, community property, promissory notes, collation Louisiana
Fisk v. Hart 11 La. 479 1838 0 Mortgages, property, bonds, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
Pannell's Heirs v. Overton 12 La. 555 1838 0 Syndic, property, community property, mortgages, contracts, petitory action, Louisiana
Behan v. Faures 12 La. 211 1838 0 Redhibition, sales, recission Louisiana
Bostwick v. Gasquet 11 La. 534 1838 0 Injunction, property, community property, fraud, seizure 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
White v. M'Quillan 12 La. 530 1838 0 Promissory notes, mortgages, seizure, sales, peremptory exception, debts, prescription, property Louisiana
Clark v. Christine 12 La. 394 1838 0 Community property, fraud, prescription, contracts Louisiana
Vawter v. Gill 12 La. 423 1838 0 Promissory notes, sales, redhibition, recission, damages Louisiana
Poulard v. Delamare 12 La. 267 1838 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, wills, sales, successions, contracts, sales Louisiana
Leeds v. Yeatman 12 La. 383 1838 0 Seizure, sales, property, injunction, suretyship Louisiana
Keys v. Nettles 12 La. 381 1838 0 Petitory action, community property, capacity Louisiana
Bourg v. Trahan's Heirs 12 La. 278 1838 0 Partition, property, community property, contracts Louisiana
Patterson v. Behan 12 La. 227 1838 0 Theft, property, evidence, damages, jury instructions, robbery Louisiana