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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Dubroca v. Her Husband 3 La. Ann. 331 1848 0 Community property, promissory notes, intervenor Louisiana
Dorsey v. Phelan 1 Rob. 28 1841 0 Community property, property, seizure, sales, damages Louisiana
Fuselier v. Fuselier 5 La. 132 1850 0 Successions, sales, property, partition Louisiana
Valega v. Broussard 3 La. Ann. 145 1848 0 Sales, recission, runaway enslaved person, redhibition, witness testimony Louisiana
Joor v. Sullivan 5 La. 177 1850 0 Judicial seizure, promissory notes, mortgages Louisiana
Bank of Louisiana v. Farrar 1 La. Ann. 49 1846 0 Bonds, mortgages, community property, contracts, capacity, obligations Louisiana
Eager v. Brown 14 La. Ann. 684 1859 0 Property, creditor's rights, judgments Louisiana
State v. Delerno 11 La. Ann. 648 1856 0 Sales of enslaved persons, selling liquor to enslaved person, criminal law Louisiana
State v. Thompson 10 La. Ann. 122 1855 0 Criminal law, warrants Louisiana
Cable v. Davenport's Heirs 4 La. 557 1832 0 Mortgages, sales, community property Louisiana
Callard v. Matthews 10 La. Ann. 233 1855 0 Sales, privileges, mortgages, substitution Louisiana
Ledoux v. Her Husband 10 La. Ann. 663 1855 0 Divorce, marital property, assault, donation inter vivos Louisiana
Reagan v. Kitchen 3 Mart. (o.s.) 418 1814 0 Suretyship, property, fieri facias, sales, seizure Louisiana
Bertin v. Phillips 1 La. Ann. 173 1846 0 Petitory action, successions, criminal law, seizure, sales, property, damages Louisiana
Mathurin v. Livaudais 5 Mart. (n.s.) 301 1827 0 Capacity, wills, property, emancipation, trusts, donations Louisiana
Chew v. Keene 4 La. 145 1832 0 Prescription, sales, promissory notes, debts, property Louisiana
Mayner v. Rollins 3 Mart. (n.s.) 618 1825 0 Contracts, delivery, fraud, parol evidence Louisiana
Baird's Heirs v. Parker 4 La. 263 1832 0 Sales, debts, mortgages Louisiana
Dranguet v. Prudhomme 3 La. 74 1831 0 Property, contracts, sales, seizure, capacity, mortgages, recission, community property, emancipation, recordation, mandates Louisiana
Merritt v. Merle 22 La. Ann. 257 1870 0 Property Louisiana