HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IN AMERICA) ACT (1777). An Act to impower His Majesty to secure and detain Persons charged with, or suspected of, the Crime of High Treason, committed in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy. TOGETHER WITH: 5 Continuation Acts (1778-1782).
Published by London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1777
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TREASON AND PIRACY IN AMERICA AND THE SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS. Total of 6 Acts (1777-1782). Folio (12 to 12.5 inches). 17 George III, Chapter 9. General title leaf + pages 311-312. WITH: 18 George III, Chapter 1. General title leaf + pages 3-4. WITH: 19 George III, Chapter 1. General title leaf + pages 3-4. WITH: 20 George III, Chapter 5. General title leaf + pages 167-168. WITH: 21 George III, Chapter 2. General title leaf + pages 11-12. WITH: 22 George III, Chapter 1. General title leaf + pages 3-4. Royal coats of arms, headpiece ornaments, and factotum initials. Text in black letter. Neatly extracted from bound volumes and expertly mended. As the American colonies became fully involved with the revolutionary war, King George III proclaimed that the colonies were in a state of open defiance and rebellion, and ordered that martial law be imposed. In order to legitimize the preventative detention of captured American soldiers, Parliament enacted the Habeas Corpus Suspension (in America) Act, 1777. By suspending the right of habeas corpus, which normally guaranteed a person the right to be brought before a court to determine the legality of detention, the Act granted the British authorities the power to detain and incarcerate individuals charged or suspected of high treason in the colonies or piracy on the high seas, without bail or trial: / / Whereas a Rebellion and War have been openly and traiterously levied and carried on in certain of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, and Acts of Treason and Piracy have been committed on the High Seas, and upon the Ships and Goods of His Majesty's Subjects, and many Persons have been seised and taken, who are expressly charged or strongly suspected of such Treasons and Felonies, and many more such Persons may be hereafter so seised and taken: be it therefore enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and temporal, and Commons, That all and every Person or Persons who are or shall be charged with or suspected of the Crime of High Treason and who have been, or shall be committed by any Magistrate having competent Authority in that Behalf, to the Common Gaol, or other Place of Confinement shall and may be thereupon secured and detained in safe Custody, without Bail or Mainprize / / . The Habeas Corpus Suspension (in America) Act, 1777 made it explicit that the purpose of the legislation was to permit the detention of American prisoners of war who, under the prevailing circumstances of insurrection, were considered to be traitors or pirates and therefore would be treated according to the law of nations rather than domestic criminal law. In addition, special provisions were made to incarcerate the prisoners of war in special places of confinement instead of common jails. The Act continued in force until 1 January 1778. The Habeas Corpus Suspension (in America) Act, 1777 was extended five times during the American Revolution, in 1778, 1779, 1780, 1781, and 1782, each continuing the legislation to be in force until 1 January of the following year. In all, the entire span of its legal effect ran from 20 February 1777 to 1 January 1783. A rare and complete set of the habeas corpus suspension legislation issued during the American Revolution. For a complete description of all six Acts, please see image.…
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- Title
- HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IN AMERICA) ACT (1777). An Act to impower His Majesty to secure and detain Persons charged with, or suspected of, the Crime of High Treason, committed in any of His Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy. TOGETHER WITH: 5 Continuation Acts (1778-1782).
- Author
- AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Great Britain. Parliament.
- Publisher
- London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan
- Publication year
- 1777
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- AMERICAN REVOLUTION, GREAT BRITAIN Military
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