They approached the most powerful judge, Lord Mansfield, who was chief judge of the court of King's Bench, and they demanded that he issue a common law writ of habeus corpus on behalf of James Somerset.
Se acercaron al juez más poderoso, Lord Mansfield, juez superior de la corte de King 's Bench, y exigieron que se emita un recurso de habeas corpus a nombre de James Somerset.