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Case Name Citation Year Distance from slave case(s) Law Type Jurisdiction ▲
Dejean v. Arnaud 25 La. Ann. 521 1873 0 Mortgage satisfaction Louisiana
Barrow v. Bank of Louisiana 2 La. Ann. 453 1847 0 Mortgages, property, sales, subrogation, seizure Louisiana
Boatner v. Wade 14 La. Ann. 695 1859 0 Sequestration, property Louisiana
Botts v. Cochrane 4 La. Ann. 35 1849 0 Runaway enslaved person, liability, statutory interpretation Louisiana
Ledoux v. Rucker 4 La. Ann. 218 1849 0 Seizure, interest, custodial costs Louisiana
State v. Morris 4 La. Ann. 177 1849 0 Criminal law, statutory interpretation Louisiana
State v. Jerry 4 La. Ann. 190 1849 0 Murder, jury selection Louisiana
White v. Anderson 13 La. Ann. 577 1858 0 Sales, debts, partnership Louisiana
Percy v. Percy 9 La. Ann. 185 1854 0 Mortgages, sales, marital property Louisiana
Young v. Egan 10 La. Ann. 415 1855 0 Emancipation, wills, trusts, conflict of laws, Louisiana
Gallian v. Cox 9 La. Ann. 500 1854 0 Estates, curatorship, successions, sales, debts Louisiana
Dussuau v. Rilieux 9 Mart. (o.s.) 318 1821 0 Suretyship, damages, seizure, property, sales, debts Louisiana
Douglass v. Curtis 5 Mart. (n.s.) 112 1826 0 Successions, promissory notes, debts, privileges, property, mortgages, sales, discussion, seizure Louisiana
Jure v. Balletin 6 La. Ann. 394 1851 0 Seizure, mortgages, property, sales Louisiana
Bonne v. Powers 3 Mart. (n.s.) 458 1825 0 Successions, property, petitory action, adverse possession, wills, conflict of laws, property, prescription Louisiana
Lloyd v. Graham 8 Mart. (n.s.) 700 1830 0 Property, partition, successions, community property, sales, contracts, simulation Louisiana
Decoux v. Bank of Louisiana 2 La. Ann. 157 1847 0 Seizure, sales, custody, mortgages Louisiana
Reading v. Donovan 6 La. Ann. 491 1851 0 Contracts, breach Louisiana
M'Donough v. Childress 15 La. 556 1840 0 Possessory action, adverse possession, prescription, property Louisiana
Pelham v. Steamboat Messenger 16 La. Ann. 99 1861 0 Sale of Slave, Death of Slave Louisiana