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1785 ยท Pennsylvania Admiralty Court
"I conclude with this observation, that in all pleas of this kind, where the law is doubtful, the leaning of the court will be in favour of its own jurisdiction. Not from a desire -of extending the admiralty cognizance, but for this important-consideration, that if the decision in favour of the jurisdiction should be erroneous, the doors of the common law are open for redress, and a prohibition may be obtained; but there is no remedy for the erroneous exclusion of parties who apply for the process of the admiralty, the benefit of the laws by which it is governed, and the summary justice it affords."
https://cite.case.law/f-cas/7/294/
Somerset: Lord Mansfield and the
Legitimacy of Slavery in the
Anglo-American World
William M. Wiecekt
"Did slavery have an adequate foundation in the indigenous law of England? If not, had it been interjected into the English legal order through colony slave laws? What were the status and rights of West Indian slaves and masters coming to the metropolis? Could the slave claim any rights under English law? Was a contract for the sale of a slave enforceable in English courts?"
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3831&context=uclrev