 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 878 pages
...power to release any person imprisoned without any cause assigned, if he were imprisoned by the express command of the king, or by the lords of the privy council. The petition of right, passed in 1628, asserted the illegality of this decision, and declared that... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - History - 1887 - 204 pages
...deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed by the special command of the King, or by the Lords of the Privy Council. This drew on a Parliamentary inquiry and produced the Petition of Right — 3 Charles I. — which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1214 pages
...deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in ease he was committed by special command of the king or by the lords of the privy council. * • * These pitiful evasions gave rise to the statute of 16 Car. L c. 10, S 8, whereby It is enacted... | |
 | Martial law - 1910 - 370 pages
...deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed by special command of the king, or by the lords of the privy council. This drew on a parliamentary inquiry, and produced the petition of right, (3 Car. I.) which recites... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 470 pages
...deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed by the special command of the king, or by the lords of the privy council. This occasioned the petition of rights (1628), and this was followed soon afterwards by a statute allowing... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - Crime - 1918 - 956 pages
...deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed by the special command of the King or by the Lords of the Privy Council. This drew on a Parliamentary inquiry, and produced the Petition of Rights — 3 Chas. I — which recites... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1979 - 505 pages
...mifunderftood) determined1 that they could not upon nn habeas corpus either bail or deliver a prilbner, though committed without any caufe affigned, in cafe...of the king, or by the lords of the privy council. This drew on a parliamentary enquiry, and produced the petition of rl^bty i Car. I. which recites this... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1979 - 505 pages
...mifunderftood) determined' that they could not upon an habeas corpus either bail or deliver a prilbner, though committed without any caufe affigned, in cafe he was committed by the fnecial command of the king, or by the lords of the privy council. This drew on a parliamentary enquiry,... | |
 | Charles Doyle - Law - 2007 - 82 pages
...deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed by the special command of the king, or by the lords of the privy council. This drew on a parliamentary enquiry, and produced the petition of right, 3 Car.I, which recites this... | |
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I. the court of king's bench, relying on some arbitrary precedents, and those perhaps misunderstood, determined that they could not upon a habeas corpus either bail or deliver a prisoner, though committed without any cause assigned, in case he was committed... 
