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p. 143

Like all commercial transactions, slave sales spawned litigation

p. 144

slave law was more sophisticated than the law governing other sorts of transactions, in particular livestock sales
The law of slave sales concerned itself with the transfer and protection of property rights, not with the establishment of ownership

p. 161

As well as being responsible for their own representations, slave sellers had a duty to disclose flaws.

Courts also protected the viability of long-distance sales, saying that sellers had to describe their slaves truthfully when buyers lived too far away to inspect the slaves.

p. 162

including defects peculiar to human  property
Warranties of soundness did not, for instance, cover obvious defects in slaves or animals

The law regarding defects in warranted animals resembled slave law.

p. 165

nearly all courts recognized sales made before war's end, refusing to adopt plaintiffs' arguments that warranties of title or "slave for life" had been breached

p. 167

people who unwittingly bought inferior slaves could not easily dispose of them-unlike antebellum employers, who could fire unsatisfactory workers at will.

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a fair price typically implied a general warranty of title to a slave. This was not true for livestock.