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...

Charles Stewart was a Scottish customs official and merchant who was the slaveowner in the Somerset v Stewart case. Stewart was born in Scotland but emigrated...

it to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus . 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...

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...

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...

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...

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treaties to allow the Royal Navy to interdict slaving ships. In 1772, Somerset v Stewart held that slavery had no basis in English law and was thus a violation...

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...

non-existent in 1776. Wilentz also criticized the project's mentioning the Somerset v Stewart case to support its argument, since that legal decision concerned...

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...

Chief Justice of England and Wales. When called on in 1772 to judge Somerset v Stewart, the case of an escaped slave whose owner wanted to send him back...

freedom there, would have agreed to return to the US. (The case of Somerset v Stewart, (K.B. 1772), [non-primary source needed] held that there was no positive...

Elizabeth Lindsay's cousin Dido Elizabeth Belle might have had on the Somerset v Stewart ruling of 1772. Sarah Gadon portrayed Lady Elizabeth in the film Belle...

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...

natural justice or public policy." He demonstrated this principle in Somerset v Stewart (King's Bench 1772), which held that slavery was so morally odious...

abolitionist campaigners and traces their campaign from its beginnings with Somerset v Stewart in 1772 until full emancipation for all British slaves was legally...

Scots law equivalent the Claim of Right is also passed. 1772 – the Somerset v Stewart judgement found that slavery was unsupported by common law in England...

fledgling abolitionist movement received a major boost after the 1772 Somerset v Stewart court case, which affirmed that English common law did not uphold...

down on both sides of the issue. The ambiguity was resolved with the Somerset v Stewart decision in 1772. Lord Mansfield ordered that a fugitive slave from...

people could do anything but that which is prohibited by law. In Somerset v Stewart, Lord Mansfield held that slavery was unlawful at common law so that...

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...

several precedents in international law, including the British case of Somerset v. Stewart (1772), and the abolishment of slavery in Massachusetts. The only...

Caribbean challenged the authority of his enslaver in the case of Somerset v Stewart. The Chief Justice, Lord Mansfield, ruled that slavery had no standing...

Tennessee declares itself independent (May) Gaspee Affair (June 9) Somerset v Stewart A British court ruling confirms that there is nothing in English common...

refreshing, wholesome quality of English air. In the 1772 court case Somerset v Stewart, where Lord Mansfield declared that an enslaved person could not be...

slavery was abolished", and, noting an earlier anti-slavery ruling in Somerset v Stewart in England, Dundas said "he hoped for the honour of Scotland, that...

Slavery became illegal in England in 1772 by court decision (see Somerset v Stewart), and in the British Empire by statute in 1833. In France, slavery...