Constitutional history -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- History -- 1689-1714 -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- Restoration, 1660-1688 -- Sources
V. And ... if any officer ... shall neglect or refuse ... to bring the
body ... of the prisoner according to the command of the said writ,
within the respective times aforesaid, or upon demand made by the
prisoner or person in his behalf, shall refuse to deliver ... a true
copy of the warrant ... of commitment ... of such prisoner, ... such
person ... shall for the first offence forfeit to the prisoner ... the
sum of one hundred pounds, and for the second offence the sum of two
hundred pounds, and shall ... be made incapable to hold or execute his
said office.
VI. And ... no person or persons which shall be delivered or set at
large upon any _Habeas Corpus_ shall at any time hereafter be again
imprisoned or committed for the same offence ... 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.
And if any other person or persons shall knowingly, contrary to this
Act, recommit or imprison, for the same offence ... any person or
persons delivered or set at large as aforesaid, ... then he or they
shall forfeit to the prisoner ... the sum of five hundred pounds.
VII. Provided always ... That if any person or persons shall be
committed for high treason or felony, plainly and specially expressed in
the warrant of commitment, upon his ... petition in open court the first
week of term, or the first day of the sessions of _Oyer and
Terminer_,[10] or general gaol-delivery, to be brought to his trial,
shall not be indicted some time in the next term, sessions of _Oyer and
Terminer_, or general gaol-delivery, after such commitment; it shall be
lawful to and for the judges of the Court of King's Bench, and justices
of _Oyer and Terminer_, or general gaol-delivery ... to set at liberty
the prisoner upon bail, unless it appear to the judges and justices ...
that the witnesses for the King could not be produced.... And if such
person ... shall not be indicted and tried the second term, sessions of
_Oyer and Terminer_, or general gaol-delivery, after his commitment, or
upon his trial shall be acquitted, he shall be discharged from his
imprisonment.
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 offence, he shall be kept in custody
according to the law, for such other suit.
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