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. ”
