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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.
Mansfield's judgment was finally overruled by the House of Lords in Donaldson v Beckett in 1774. [ 56 ] Mansfield's judgment has been criticised as being unusually short-sighted because he failed to see that while his decision was correct for that particular case, the precedent it would set would create an unfair monopoly for the booksellers ...
Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499, illegality of slavery at common law; Campbell v Hall (1774) 1 Cowp 204, tax and the Crown's authority in a colony; Holman v Johnson (1775) 1 Cowp 341, the illegality policy in contract law; Pierson v Dunlop (1777) Cowp. 571; Bach v Longman (1777) 2 Cowper 623, copyright
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Mansfield was one of James Somersett's lawyers; Somersett was a slave brought by his master from Jamaica to London in 1769, and freed on 22 June 1772 by a ruling from Lord Mansfield (no relation). Mansfield was made king's counsel on 24 July 1772, and a bencher of the Middle Temple shortly after, on 6 November 1772.