 | Jamaica - 1855 - 636 pages
...public : And whereas, the provisions made by an act passed in England [31 Charles II. c. 10, ante] only extend to cases of commitment or detainer for criminal or supposed criminal matter: Judge« to Be it therefore enacted, That where any person shall be confined or vrauon restrained of... | |
 | Andrew Amos - 1857 - 374 pages
...Corpus, which indicates, according to the fact, a consolidation of two proposed Bills, is that of " An Act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond Seas." The Act provides, first, as to persons having others in custody; — Upon... | |
 | William Edward Flaherty - 1857 - 440 pages
...members of the country party, of which the earl of Shaftesbury is the president, April 20. An act passed "for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the seas," [31 Car. II. c. 2]. This, the invaluable Habeas Corpus Act, was the... | |
 | Rollin Carlos Hurd - 1858 - 714 pages
...C«:-^^tini^on of the United States, and of the act of 1753. APPENDIX. HABEAS CORPUS ACT, 31 CAR. 2. ACT FOR THE BETTER SECURING THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT,...AND FOR PREVENTION OF IMPRISONMENT BEYOND THE SEAS. WHEREAS great delays have been used by sheriffs, gaolers and other officers, to whose custody any of... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1858 - 560 pages
...legislation law, when the Bill was presented to him, which now stands in our Statute Books as " An Act for the better securing the Liberty of the Subject, and for Preventing of Imprisonments beyond Seas." t This is the Habeas Corpus Act, the noble enactment which... | |
 | David Rowland - 1859 - 606 pages
...it enlarge the inherent principle of personal liberty which Magna Charta declared. Its title is, "An Act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the seas." It extended the power of granting the writ to the lord-chancellor and... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...importation of iron and staves ; a third for preventing popish priests from coming into the kingdom; a fourth securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonment beyond seas ; and a fifth fornaturalizing all protestant strangers. NoteK,p. 136 Voltaire, upon what anthority... | |
 | Robert Ross - 1860 - 516 pages
...Oxford parliament failed. This parliament is chiefly remarkable for passing the celebrated Habeas Corpus Act, " for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for prevention of imprisonments beyond the seas" ; it was indeed the only important measure perfected in Charles's second... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - 1860 - 780 pages
...England or Ireland. The benefit of the writ of habeas corpus, which was limited by the former acts to cases of commitment or detainer for criminal, or supposed criminal, matter, has been still further extended by the 59 Geo. III. c. 100, which enacts that any one of the judges... | |
 | Turks and Caicos Islands, Alfred John Duncombe - 1862 - 640 pages
...debts of the Executors, and Administrators of Executors, in their own wrong." 31 Charles 2, ch. 2. " An Act for the better securing the liberty of the subject, and for the prevention of the imprisonment beyond the seas." 3 W. & M., ch. 14. " An Act for the relief of... | |
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An Act for the better securing the Liberty of the Subject, and for Prevention of Imprisonments beyond the Seas. 
