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Case Name Citation ▼ Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Highlander v. Fluke 5 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1818 0 Property, seizure, sales, consideration, witness testimony, fraud, debts Louisiana
Peytavin v. Hopkins 5 Mart. (o.s.) 438 1818 0 Debts, mortgages, property, seizure, sales, privileges, successions, hearsay Louisiana
Maurin v. Martinez 5 Mart. (o.s.) 432 1818 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, successions, warranty, prescription Louisiana
Gardner v. Harbour 5 Mart. (o.s.) 408 1818 0 Wills, successions, property, partition Louisiana
Langlish v. Schons 5 Mart. (o.s.) 405 1818 0 Damages, agency, fraud, emancipation, evidence Louisiana
Zanico v. Habine 5 Mart. (o.s.) 372 1818 0 Sales, seizure, statutory interpretation, evidence, property, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
Pierce v. Grays 5 Mart. (o.s.) 367 1818 0 Sales, property, donations inter vivos, revocation, parol evidence Louisiana
Seville v. Chretien 5 Mart. (o.s.) 275 1817 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, res judicata, witness testimony, Louisiana
Petit v. Gillet 5 Mart. (o.s.) 19 1817 0 Abatement, prescription, res judicata, property, evidence Louisiana
Bayon v. Tricou 5 Mart. (o.s.) 1 1817 0 Property, sales, recission Louisiana
Beon v. Morgan 5 Mart. (n.s.) 701 1827 0 Seizure, successions, partition, property, possessory action Louisiana
Perrie v. Williams 5 Mart. (n.s.) 694 1827 0 Trespass, negligence, damages, property Louisiana
Overton v. Gervais 5 Mart. (n.s.) 682 1827 0 Obligations, debts, property, reconventional demand, redhibition, fraud, contracts, breach Louisiana
Johnson v. Field 5 Mart. (n.s.) 635 1827 0 Petitory action, property, sales Louisiana
Sanders v. Harding's Heirs 5 Mart. (n.s.) 62 1826 0 Successions, property, debts Louisiana
Saul v. His Creditors 5 Mart. (n.s.) 569 1827 0 Louisiana
Fox v. Adams 5 Mart. (n.s.) 558 1827 0 Wages, contracts Louisiana
Millaudon v. Percy 5 Mart. (n.s.) 551 1827 0 Property, sales, partition, intervenor, successions Louisiana
Dicks v. O'Conner 5 Mart. (n.s.) 547 1827 0 Promissory notes, debts Louisiana
Balfour v. Chew 5 Mart. (n.s.) 517 1827 0 Injunction, property, mortgages, seizure, wills, recordation, conflict of laws Louisiana