Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499 (also known as Sommersett v Steuart, Somersett's case, and the Mansfield Judgment) is a judgment of the English Court...

where Scottish merchant Charles Stewart bought Somerset on 1 August 1749. In 1764, Somerset was taken to Boston, where Stewart had been appointed Receiver...

1772 when he was instrumental in securing Lord Mansfield's ruling in Somerset v Stewart, which held that slavery had no basis in English law. In 1787, Sharp...

Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (see "Piso's justice"). The concept is cited in Somerset v Stewart. The falling sky clause occurs in a passage of Heauton Timorumenos...

behalf of captive nonhuman animals are based in part on the case of Somerset v Stewart. In that 1772 case, William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, the chief...

Hopkins without his jurisdiction, and Hopkins was released, and that of Somerset v Stewart, in which an African slave whose master had moved to London was freed...

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particular." Luke v Lyde (1759) 97 Eng Rep 614, 618; (1759) 2 Burr 882, 887 Pillans v Van Mierop (1765) 3 Burr 1663 Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499...

of England from 1756 to 1788, presided over two important cases, Somerset v Stewart in 1772 and the Zong insurance claims case in 1783, which helped lay...

Massachusetts courts in freedom suits, spurred on the decision made in the Somerset v. Stewart case, which although not applying the colonies was still received...