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.
Prišli su najmoćnijem sucu, lordu Mansfieldu, koji je bio glavni sudac na kraljevom sudu, i zahtijevali da izda običajnopravni sudski nalog habeus corpus, za dovođenje Jamesa Somerseta.