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.
曼斯菲尔德法官立刻作出了英明决定 因为如果詹姆斯·萨默赛特是一个合法物品 那么人身保护令将不适用于他 只有当他是一个合法人才可以