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.
Raggiunsero il giudice più influente, Lord Mansfield, che era giudice supremo  della Corte del Consiglio Reale, e chiesero, come da Common Law, un ordine di habeas corpus, a nome di James Somerset.