1750s edit

• Robinson v Robinson (1756) 96 ER 999, Lord Mansfield's first case, holding a will effective if, even uncertainly, it does "manifest general intent"
• Cooper v Chitty (1756) 1 Burr 36, trover and conversion
• R v Richardson (1758) 97 ER 426, principles of representative accountability in companies

1760s edit

• Moses v Macferlan (1760) 2 Burr 1005, unjust enrichment, or quasi-contract
• Pillans & Rose v Van Mierop & Hopkins (1765) 3 Burr 1663, irrelevance of consideration
• Carter v Boehm (1766) 3 Burr 1905, good faith principle in context of insurance
• Alderson v Temple (1768) 96 ER 384, on fraudulent preferences in insolvency aimed at equality
• Millar v Taylor (1769) 4 Burr. 2303, declaring a perpetual copyright, overruled by Donaldson v Becket (1774) 4 Burr 2408

1770s edit

• Tinker v Poole (1770) 5 Burr 2657, conversion
• Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499, illegality of slavery at common law
• Campbell v Hall (1774) 1 Cowp 204, tax and the Crown's authority in a colony
• Holman v Johnson (1775) 1 Cowp 341, the illegality policy in contract law
• Pierson v Dunlop (1777) Cowp. 571
• Bach v Longman (1777) 2 Cowper 623, copyright
• Da Costa v Jones (1778) 2 Cowp 729, on good faith in wagers
• R v Baillie (1778) criminal libel
• Pawson v Watson (1778) 2 Cowp 786, reasserting the general principle of good faith

1780s edit

• Trial of Lord George Gordon (1781) high treason trial for Gordon riots against Catholics in London
• R v Shipley (1784) libel
• Forward v Pittard (1785) 1 Term Rep. 27, bailees

• English contract law
• UK copyright law