habeas corpus act 1640造句

• In response to this abuse and others, the Star Chamber was abolished by the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.
• The Star Chamber itself, as a judicial body, was abolished by Parliament as part of the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.
• A previous law ( the Habeas Corpus Act 1640 ) had been passed forty years earlier to overturn a ruling that the command of the King was a sufficient answer to a petition of " habeas corpus ".
• This monopoly continued until 1641 when, inflamed by the treatment of religious dissenters such as John Lilburne and William Prynne, the Long Parliament abolished the Star Chamber ( a court which controlled the press ) with the Habeas Corpus Act 1640.
• This case was one of the first tests of " Habeas Corpus " when the gaoler had no colour of state; the writ had been conceived in the midst of the English Civil War as the Habeas Corpus Act 1640, in order to defend the subject from government tyranny.