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Case Name Citation Year ▲ Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction
Jacob v. Ursuline Nuns 2 Mart. (o.s.) 269 1812 0 Emancipation, donations, contracts, corporations, property, subpoena duces tecum, evidence, wills Louisiana
Spruill v. Spruill 6 N.C. 175 1812 0 Action of detinue North Carolina
Delahaye v. Pellerin 2 Mart. (o.s.) 142 1812 0 Damages, petitory action, res judicata Louisiana
Macarty's Case 2 Mart. (o.s.) 279 1812 0 Insurrection, habeas corpus, criminal law, grand jury Louisiana
Reddick v. Trotman 6 N.C. 165 1812 0 Wills & Estates North Carolina
Watkins v. McDonough 2 Mart. (o.s.) 154 1812 0 Warranty, statute of frauds, sales, convenant, parol evidence Louisiana
Bell v. Blaney 6 N.C. 171 1812 0 Property Interests North Carolina
Orleans Navigation Co. v. Mayor of New-Orleans 2 Mart. (o.s.) 214 1812 0 Servitude, corporeal rights, incorporeal rights, wages, construction, witness testimony, water law, incorporation Louisiana
Ducournau v. Morphy 2 Mart. (o.s.) 297 1812 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, runaway enslaved person, prescription Louisiana
Bourcier v. Lanusse 3 Mart. (o.s.) 581 (1815) 1812 0 Sales, property, community property, renunciation, contracts, conflict of laws, Louisiana
Poutz v. Duplantier 2 Mart. (o.s.) 331 1812 0 Promissory notes, sales, property, seizure, debts, fieri facias, privileges, mortgages, suretyship Louisiana
Blakey v. West 17 Va. 76 1812 1 Virginia
Lewis v. Spalding 2 D.C. 68 1812 0 Conspiracy to Kidnap a slave United States
Kingsley v. Bill 9 Mass. 197 1812 1 Massachusetts
Gray v. Campbell 17 Va. 251 1812 1 Virginia
Reeves v. Hogan & Henderson 3 Tenn. 174 1812 1 Tennessee
Birthright v. Hall 17 Va. 536 1812 1 Virginia
Baird v. Bland 17 Va. 570 1812 0 Suit in equity SC of Appeals VA
Wilkinson's Administrators v. Bennett 17 Va. 314 1812 1 Virginia
Franklin v. Wilkinson 17 Va. 112 1812 1 Virginia