Summary

Habeas Corpus Act (1679)

XVIII. And, to the intent no person may avoid his trial – or general gaol delivery by procuring his removal before the Assizes, at such time as he cannot be brought back to receive his trial there, be it enacted, that after the Assizes proclaimed for that county where the prisoner is detained, no person shall be removed from the common gaol under any Habeas Corpus granted in pursuance of this act, but upon any such Habeas Corpus shall be brought before the Judge of Assizes in open Court, who is thereupon to do what to justices shall appertain.
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Habeas Corpus Act (1679)

VIII. Provided always, that nothing in this act shall extend to discharge out of prison any person charged in debt, or other action, or with process in any civil cause, but that after he shall be discharged of his imprisonment for such his criminal offense, he shall be kept in custody according to the law, for such other suit.
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Habeas Corpus Act (1679)

VI. And for the prevention of unjust vexation by reiterated commitments for the same offense; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that no person or persons which shall be delivered or sit at large upon any Habeas Corpus shall at any time hereafter be again imprisoned or committed for the same offense by any person or persons whatsoever, other than by the legal order and process of such Court wherein he or they shall be bound by recognizance to appear, or other Court having jurisdiction of the cause
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