So Lord Mansfield decided that he would assume, without deciding, that James Somerset was indeed a legal person, and he issued the writ of habeus corpus, and James's body was brought in by the captain of the ship.
Tako je Lord Mansfield odlučio pretpostaviti, bez odlučivanja, da je James Somerset zaista pravno osoba, i izdao je nalog habeus corpus i kapetan broda je doveo Jamesovo tijelo pred sud.