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The seventh article of the Belgian constitution establishes in that country principles which have long prevailed in England. The terms thereof so curiously illustrate by way of contrast some marked features of English constitutional law as to be worth quotation.
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For legal justification see Wade and Phillips, Constitutional Law (6th ed., 1960), pp. 466 ff., 674–676; Kenny, Outlines of Criminal Law (17th ed., 1958), pp. 535–540. ED.
Contrast with this the extraordinary remedies adopted under the old French monarchy for the punishment of powerful criminals. As to which see Fléchier, Mémoires de Fléchier sur les grands jours d’ Auvergne, en 1665 (1856).
See Star Chamber Abolition Act, 1641, s. 8; Habeas Corpus Acts, 1679, 1816, and 1862; Wade and Phillips, Constitutional Law (6th ed., 1960), pp. 474–481;
Forsyth, Cases and Opinions in Constitutional Law (1869), ch. xvi.
The King v. Winton (1792) 5 T.R. 89; cf. Habeas Corpus Act, 1816, s. 2; see Corner, Practice of the Crown Side of the Court of Queen’s Bench (1844).
For Bail see Halsbury, Laws of England (3rd ed.), vol. x (1955), pp. 373–376, and Wade and Phillips, Constitutional Law (5th ed., 1955), p. 376.
See The Case of Pressing Mariners (1743) 18 St. Tr..1323; Stephen, Commentaries (14th ed., 1903), vol. ü, pp. 574, 575; cf. Corner, Forms of Writs and Other Proceedings on the Crown Side of the Court of Queen’s Bench (1844), p. 64, for form of habeas corpus for an impressed seaman.
See Duguit, Manuel de Droit Public français, Droit Constitutionnel (1907), para. 76, pp. 510–513
article “Etat de Siège” in Chéruel, Dictionnaire historique des Institutions de la France (8th ed., 1910), vol. i, vo Etat de siège, p. 375.
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Dicey, A.V. (1979). The Right to Personal Freedom. In: Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17968-8_6
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