Parliament codified the writ’s protections in The Habeas Corpus Act of 1679. A century later, Sir William Blackstone could describe habeas corpus as “the great and efficacious writ.” ...
His imprisonment, it has been popular to consider the immediate occasion of the celebrated Habeas Corpus act, the great key of civil liberty, as an elegant writer denominates it, "which forces the ...
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