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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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