Well, Lord Mansfield had to make a decision right off the bat, because if James Somerset was a legal thing, he was not eligible for a writ of habeus corpus, only if he could be a legal person.
Nah, Lord Mansfield harus membuat keputusan saat itu juga, karena jika James Somerset adalah benda hukum, dia tidak memenuhi persyaratan surat perintah habeus corpus, hanya jika dia bisa menjadi orang hukum.