The advent of the concept of Habeas Corpus, its application and short comings

HISTORICAL SOURCE: This write is of immemorial antiquity, after a checkered struggle involving common-law courts, the courts of chancellery, the Star Chamber, as well as conflicts between Parliament and the Crown, the protection of this writ was firmly written into English Law, by the Habeas corpus Act of 1679. Today in England, its ranks the most important writ in the constitutional Law of England… Charles Alan Wright. The Law of Federal Courts, 53 at 350 (5th Edition 1994) (quoting secretary of state for Home Affairs V. O’Brien (1923) AC 603, 309. DEFINITION AND TYPES OF HABEAS CORPUS The definition of…