MANSFIELD, WILLIAM MURRAY, 1ST EARL OF, EARL OF ...


Meaning of MANSFIELD, WILLIAM MURRAY, 1ST EARL OF, EARL OF ... in English

born March 2, 1705, Scone, Perthshire, Scot. died March 20, 1793, London, Eng. chief justice of the King's Bench of Great Britain from 1756 to 1788, who made important contributions to commercial law. Additional reading Edmund Heward, Lord Mansfield (1979); C.H.S. Fifoot, Lord Mansfield (1936, reprinted 1977).

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