Somerset V Stewart
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| Ruling court | Queen's Bench |
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| Citation(s) | (1772) 98 ER 499, (1772) 20 State Tr 1, (1772) Lofft 1 |
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| ID | 963155 |
About Somerset V Stewart
Somerset v Stewart 98 ER 499 is a famous judgment of the Court of King's Bench in 1772, which held that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales, although the position elsewhere in the British Empire was left ambiguous.
