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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Metayer v. Metayer 6 Mart. (o.s.) 16 1819 0 Emancipation, freedom suit, false imprisonment, damages, evidence, prescription, conflict of laws, property Louisiana
Hannie v. Browder 6 Mart. (o.s.) 14 1819 0 Community property, successions, sales, privileges, property, mortgages Louisiana
Peytavin v. Hopkins 6 Mart. (o.s.) 256 1819 0 Agency, partneships, property, mortgages, seizure, sales, evidence Louisiana
Fouque's Syndics v. Vigniaud 6 Mart. (o.s.) 423 1819 0 Property, debts, sales, consideration, promissory notes, parol evidence Louisiana
De Armas v. Hampton 6 Mart. (o.s.) 567 1819 0 Property, sales, marriage, community property, contracts Louisiana
Girod v. Lewis 6 Mart. (o.s.) 559 1819 0 Marriage, manumission, capacity, contracts, emancipation Louisiana
Saulet v. Loiseau 6 Mart. (o.s.) 512 1819 0 Sales, warranty, recission, redhibition, witness testimony, impeachment Louisiana
Maurin v. Toustin 6 Mart. (o.s.) 496 1819 0 Sales, wages Louisiana
Gravier v. Livingston 6 Mart. (o.s.) 281 1819 0 Successions, property, partition, community property, adverse possession Louisiana
Donaldson v. Rust 6 Mart. (o.s.) 260 1819 0 Petitory action, successions, sales, property, privileges, venue Louisiana
Dufour v. Camfrancq 8 Mart. (o.s.) 235 1820 0 Sales, successions, suretyship, fieri facias, seizure, parol testimony, parol evidence, sequestration Louisiana
Bernard v. Vignaud 8 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1820 0 Successions, mortgages, property, sales, syndics, hypothecary act, evidence, privileges Louisiana
Catin v. D'Orgenoy's Heirs 8 Mart. (o.s.) 218 1820 0 Freedom suit, emancipation Louisiana
Prevost's Heirs v. Johnson 9 Mart. (o.s.) 123 1820 0 Property, sales, deeds, adverse possession, syndic, taxes, evidence, subrogation, prescription, witness testimony, parol evidence, contracts Louisiana
Tessier v. Hall 7 Mart. (o.s.) 411 1820 0 Seizure, injunction, sales, recordation, mortgages Louisiana
Blondeau v. Gales 8 Mart. (o.s.) 313 1820 0 Recission, sales, runaway enslaved person, redhibition, robbery Louisiana
Dunn v. Vail 7 Mart. (o.s.) 416 1820 0 Damages, property, community property, fieri facias, seizure, sales Louisiana
Sterling v. Fusilier 7 Mart. (o.s.) 442 1820 0 Warranty, sales, eviction, suretyship, damages, contracts, property Louisiana
Dunn v. Vail 7 Mart. (o.s.) 437 1820 0 Property Louisiana
Calvit v. Haynes 8 Mart. (o.s.) 712 1820 0 Promissory notes, suretyship, sales Louisiana