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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 of King's Bench in 1772, relating to the right of an enslaved person on English soil not to be forcibly removed from the country and sent to Jamaica for sale.
Robinson v Robinson (1756) 96 ER 999, Lord Mansfield's first case, holding a will effective if, even uncertainly, it does "manifest general intent" Cooper v Chitty (1756) 1 Burr 36, trover and conversion; R v Richardson (1758) 97 ER 426, principles of representative accountability in companies
Murray was born on 2 March 1705, at Scone Palace in Perthshire, Scotland, the fourth son of the 5th Viscount of Stormont and his wife Margaret [5] as one of eleven children. [6] [7] Both his parents were strong supporters of the Jacobite cause, [8] [9] and his older brother James followed "The Old Pretender" into exile, this left the family's finance relatively impoverished. [10]
The year Copley painted him he made a major ruling in the case of the Zong slave-trading ship. Mansfield's own great-niece Dido Elizabeth Belle was a daughter of an enslaved woman. Copley was an American artist who emigrated to Britain in 1774 and enjoyed success with his history paintings, although he continued to produce portraits.
[1] [2] Dido was the great niece of Lord Chief Justice Lord Mansfield who made notable rulings limiting the practice of slavery and the slave trade, notably Somersett's Case and the Zong trial. The 2013 film Belle drew inspiration from the painting. [3] It was once attributed to the German-born artist Johan Zoffany.
Lord Mansfield was the pre-eminent judge of his age, and decided a host of seminal cases, many of which laid the foundations for commercial law and remain good law to this day. Pages in category "Lord Mansfield cases"
The ruling in the Somerset case held that slavery was inhumane and illegal on British soil. Lord Mansfield's opinion in the case was widely read and commented on in the colonies. Slavery, Lord Mansfield ruled, had no basis in "natural law" and could only be maintained through "positive law".
The Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, ruled that slavery had no standing under common law and enslavers, therefore, were not permitted to transport enslaved people outside England and Wales against their will. Many observers took it to mean that slavery was ended in England.