- Esher dissented from the Court of Appeal decision of Fry LJ and Lopes LJ; the House of Lords overturned their decision and by so doing established the Mozambique rule, a common law rule in private international law that renders actions relating to title in foreign land, the right to possession of foreign land, and trespass to foreign land non-justiciable in common law jurisdictions. The Satanita [1897] AC 59 - Contract law case atypical of the conventional offer & acceptance pattern seen in English law. Brett's decision at appeal affirmed by the House of Lords. Family Lord Esher married Eugénie Mayer (1814–1904) in 1850. She was the daughter of Finette and Lazare Mayer, and the step-daughter of Lt Col John Gurwood, the editor of Wellington's Dispatches. They had two sons, Reginald, and Eugène, and a daughter Violet, wife of William Humble Dudley Ward and mother of William Dudley Ward. Lord Esher died in London in May 1899, aged eighty-one, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Reginald. Arms See also List of Cambridge University Boat Race crews References External links 1817 births 1899 deaths People educated at Westminster School, London Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Cambridge University Boat Club rowers British male rowers 19th-century English judges Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs who were granted peerages Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies Viscounts in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Solicitors General for England and Wales Masters of the Rolls Justices of the Common Pleas Knights Bachelor Common Pleas Division judges Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Helston Peers of the United Kingdom created by Queen Victoria