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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Stewart v. Berard 4 La. 454 1832 0 Successions, sales, petitory action, adverse possession Louisiana
Kemp's Heirs v. Kemp's Executors 11 La. 19 1837 0 Successions, donation, partnerships, debts, privileges, promissory notes, partition Louisiana
Poulard v. Delamare 12 La. 267 1838 0 Freedom suit, emancipation, wills, sales, successions, contracts, sales Louisiana
Conolly v. Bertrand 12 La. 313 1838 0 Sales, recission, redhibition, fraud Louisiana
Offutt v. Morancy 12 La. 92 1845 0 Sales, contracts, promissory notes, delivery Louisiana
Rodriguez v. Vassant 11 La. 165 1837 0 Sequestration, sales, petitory action, damages, runaway enslaved person Louisiana
McFarlane v. Richardson 11 Rob. 13 1845 0 Hypothecary action, sales, seizure, mortgages, fieri facias Louisiana
Rist v. Hagan 8 Rob. 106 1844 0 Redhibition, sales, warranty, runaway enslaved person, prescription Louisiana
Sides v. Nettles 4 Rob. 170 1843 0 Successions, property, prescription, wills Louisiana
Behan v. Faures 12 La. 211 1838 0 Redhibition, sales, recission Louisiana
Mayes v. Calvit 12 Mart. (o.s.) 373 1822 0 Sales, successions, sequestration, bonds, damages, delivery, property Louisiana
Hicky v. Sharp 4 La. 335 1832 0 Sales, successions, debt, promissory notes, suretyship Louisiana
Hubnall v. Watt 11 La. Ann. 57 1856 0 Prescription, sales, property Louisiana
State v. Cecil 2 Mart. (o.s.) 208 1812 0 Witness testimony, emancipation, conflict of laws, evidence Louisiana
State v. Thompson 13 La. Ann. 515 1858 0 Theft of enslaved person Louisiana
Jacob v. Ursuline Nuns 2 Mart. (o.s.) 269 1812 0 Emancipation, donations, contracts, corporations, property, subpoena duces tecum, evidence, wills Louisiana
Maria v. Edwards 1 Rob. 359 1842 0 Freedom suit, wills, emancipation, witness testimony Louisiana
Williams v. Hagan 2 La. 122 1830 0 Recission, sales, conflict of laws, property, delivery, mortgages Louisiana
Stephenson v. Lee 6 La. Ann. 758 1851 0 Mortgages, sales, possessory action Louisiana
Commissioners of the New Orleans Improvement & Banking Co. v. Jewett 11 Rob. 20 1845 0 Sales, mortgages, writ of fifa, seizure, property, recordation, domicile Louisiana