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Lord Mansfield

Judge who presided over Gregson v Gilbert in the Court of King’s Bench.

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William Murray

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  1. A New Look at the Zong Case of 1783, XVII-XVIII: Revue de la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, 2019. Scholarship & press
    Lord Mansfield made a notorious comment adjudicating in the case when it came before the Court of King’s Bench on 22 May 1783.
    seems to make more sense as an insurance scam than as a genuine attempt to forestall insurrection
    That crime happened with regularity.
  2. Gregson v Gilbert (1783) 3 Douglas 232, 99 English Reports 629, as copied on the Kenlocution blog, Kenlocution blog (a personal blog), copying the English Reports text of the Court of King’s Bench report, 22 May 1783. Scholarship & press
    Lord Mansfield.—This is a very uncommon case, and deserves a reconsideration.
    they took these means of transferring the loss from the owners to the underwriters
    Nor was it the fact that the slaves were destroyed in order to throw the loss on the underwriters.
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