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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 a slave on English soil not to be forcibly removed from the country and sent to Jamaica for sale.
His godparents, abolitionists, filed a Habeas corpus case with the courts and enlisted Granville Sharp to aid Somerset. [3] The case, Somerset v Stewart, saw powerful interests arguing on both sides, as it challenged the legal basis of slavery in England and Wales. On 22 June 1772, the judge, Lord Mansfield, found in favour of Somerset. [3]
Charles Stewart was a Scottish customs official and merchant who was the slaveowner in the Somerset v Stewart case. ... while working on business for Stewart ...
For his work in Carter v Boehm and Pillans v Van Mierop, Mansfield has been called the founder of English commercial law. Mansfield is also known for his judgment in Somerset v Stewart where he held that slavery had no basis in common law and had never been established by positive law in England, and therefore was not binding in law. [2]
After evading slave hunters employed by Stewart for 56 days, Somerset had been caught and put in the slave ship Ann and Mary, to be taken to Jamaica and sold. [5] This was the perfect case for Sharp because, unlike the previous cases, this was a question of lawful slavery rather than of ownership.
Stewart, 83, provided filmmaker R. J. Cutler with personal letters she had written throughout her life, some from behind bars. A voiceover reads the letters in Martha.
NBC Los Angeles reported in late April on Stewart’s death, saying it happened while he was on duty at the sheriff’s South Los Angeles station. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Jonathan Stewart.
When called on in 1772 to judge Somerset v Stewart, the case of an escaped slave whose owner wanted to send him back to the West Indies for sale, Mansfield tried hard to prevent the case coming to trial; Mansfield also suggested to Somerset's abolitionist protectors to buy him from Stewart, but they refused. The case went for trial and he decreed: