J 4 & H A : B 
Regni Davidici & Salomonaai, cum Delinealione Syria & 
JEgypti, &c. Norimb. 1739 and 1745, fol. cum fig. He 
laboured for many years on a work, part of which 
was publifhed under the title of, Prodromus Hifioriarum: 
five, Prodromus Theairi fummorum Imperiorum ; hoc ejt , Hijlo- 
rice Politic a univerfalis, potior is, & principolis, &c. Leipfic, 
1742, fol. An abridgment of this work was publifhed 
before the author’s-death, with the title of, Hijloria Uni- 
verfalis Politica Idea, plane nova & legitima, &c. Norimb. 
1743, 4to. with twenty-eight maps and fixteen chonolo- 
gical tables. The fird part contains a fhort view of ge¬ 
neral hidory ; the fecond, chronological tables ; and 
the third, maps, which exhibit the various changes 
that had taken place in different dates and kingdoms. 
Thefe works were publifhed after the author’s death, 
in .1750, under the general title of, An Hidorical Atlas, 
containing the great Kingdoms and Monarchies, accord¬ 
ing to the Syftem of dncient Geography. This was the 
lad production of the learned and indudrious author, 
who died in the fifty-eighth year of his age, in Septem¬ 
ber, 1742. 
HAB-iE'NA, [a bridle.] In furgery, a bandage for 
keeping the lips of wounds-together, ufually made in 
the form of a bridle. 
HAB'AKKUK, the eighth of the minor Hebrew pro¬ 
phets, according to the order in which they are placed 
both in the Hebrew and Greek Bibles. We have no 
information refpedting either the parents from whom he 
was defcended, or the time in which he lived. It feems 
probable, however, that he fl.ourifhed after the taking 
of Nineveh; as. he prophefies of the Chaldeans, and. is 
filent on the fubjeCt of the Adyrians. The fubje&s of 
his predictions are: the defolation and dedrudtion of 
Judah and Jerusalem by the Chaldeans, asa punifhment 
for their heinous crimes; the fubfequent ruin of the 
Babylonidi empire ; and the deliverance from captivity 
which the Jews would experience, according to Je. 
hovah’s faithful word, and in conformity with the plan 
of the divine proceedings relating to them ever fince 
their emancipation from Egyptian flavery. From Lome 
expredions which occur in them, we may conclude, 
that he prophesied not long before the, JeVvilh capti¬ 
vity. He may, therefore, be placed in the reign of 
Jehoiakim, between the years 606 and 598 before'Chrid. 
The dyle of the book of Habakkuk is poetical, and, 
according to the judgment of bilhops Lowth and New- 
combe, he “ dands high in the clafs of Hebrew poets. 
The beautiful connection between the parts of this pro¬ 
phecy, its diCtion, imagery, Ipirit, and fublimity, can T 
not be too much admired.” The bed Englidi verfion 
this prophet is that of Dr. New.combe, bilhop of Water¬ 
ford, and afterwards primate of Ireland, in his Attempt 
towards an improved Verfion of the twelve minor Pro¬ 
phets. 
HA'BAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Irak. 
HA'BAS, a town of France, in the department of the 
Landes : three leagues and a half fouth of Dax, and 
w three north-wed of Orthez. 
HA'BAT, or Be'ne IIas'sen, a province of the em¬ 
pire of Morocco, on the coad of the Atlantic Ocean ; 
about forty miles fquafe. The pr-incipal town is Sallee. 
BABDA'LA,/ [from the Keb. fignifying a repara¬ 
tion. ] That part of the fervice or ceremony with which 
the Jewis conclude the fabbath. 
HA'BEAS eOR'PUS,/. [Latin.] Inlaw, the fub-. 
jeft’s writ of right, whenever.oppfelfed by illegal im- 
prifonment; founded on, and fecured -by, various,,da- 
tu-tes ; of which the lad and mod powerful, the dat. 
31 Gar. II. c. 2, is emphatically - (tiled the Habeas 
Corpus Act ; and is the next in.importance, and be¬ 
neficial efteCt, to Magna Charta ; the language of 
which is, “that n p freeman fiiall be taken or impri- 
foned, but by the lawful judgment of his equals, or by 
the law of the land.’if Mag. C. c. 29. 
Qf the writ of habeas corpus tlierC are various kinds, 
H A B 
and often ufed for removing prifoners from one court 
into anotlver for the more eafy adminidration of judice. 
Such is the habeas corpus ad refpondenditm, when a man 
hath a caufe of aCtion againd one who is confined by 
the procefs of fome inferior court; in order to remove 
the prifoner, and charge him with this new aCtion in 
the court above. Habeas corpus ad fatisfaciendum, is 
when a prifoner hath judgment againd him in an aCtion, 
and the plaintid' is defirous to bring him up to fome 
fuperior court, to charge him with procefs-of execu¬ 
tion. Similar alfo are the writs habeas Corpus ad pro - 
fequendum,tejlificandum, deliberandum, See . which iduewhen 
it is necedary to remove a prifoner, in order to profe- 
cute or be^r tedimony in any court, or to fye tried in 
the proper jurifdiCtion wherein the faCl wasicommitted. 
Such is likewife the writ of habeas corpus ad faciendum 
et recipiendum, which ilfues out of any of the-courts of 
Wedminder-hall, when a perfon is fued in fome infe¬ 
rior jurifdiCtion, and is defirous to remove the aCtion 
into the fuperior court; commanding the inferior judges 
to produce the body of the defendant, together with 
the day and caufe of his caption and detainer ; whence 
the writ is often denominated an habeas corpus cum 
caufa ; to do-and receive whatfoever the king’s court Ihall 
confider in that behalf. This is a writ grantable of 
common right, without any motion in court; and it in- 
dantly fuperfedes all proceedings in the courts below. 
But, in order to prevent the furreptitious difeharge of 
prifoners, it is ordered by dat. 1 and 2 Ph. & M. c. 13, 
that no habeas corpus .diall id'ue to remove any prifoner 
out of any gaol, unlefs figned by fome judge of the 
court out of which it is awarded. And, to avoid vexa¬ 
tious delays by removal of frivolous caufes, it is enaCted 
by dat. 21 Jac. I. c. 23, that, where the judge of an in¬ 
ferior court of record is a barrider of three years dand- 
ing, no caufe diall be removed from thence by habeas 
corpus or other writ, after id'ue or demurrer deliberately 
joined ; that no caufe, if onc& remanded to the inferior 
court by writ of procedendo or otherwife, Ihall ever after¬ 
wards be again removed ; and that no caufe Ihall be re¬ 
moved at all, if the debt or damages laid in the decla¬ 
ration do not amount to the fum of five pounds. But 
an expedient having been found out to elude,the latter 
branch of the datute, by procuring a nominal plaintid' 
to bring another action for five pounds or upwards (and 
then by the courfe of the court the habeas corpus re¬ 
moved both actions together), it is therefore enacted 
by dat. 12 Geo. 1. c. 29, that the inferior court may pro¬ 
ceed in fuch actions as are under the , value of dve 
pounds, notwithdanding other actions may be brought 
againd the fame -defendant to a greater amount. But 
the grand palladium of the liberty of the fubjeCt, judge 
Blackdone very judy obferves, is the writ of habeas 
corpus ad fubjiciendum ; diredled to the perfon detaining 
another, and commanding him to produce the body of 
the prifoner, with the day and caufe of his caption and 
detention, ad faciendum, fubjiciendum, et recipiendum, to, do, 
fubmit to, and receive, whatfoever the judge or court 
awarding Inch writ Ihall diredt in that behalf. 
This high prerogative writ ilfues out of the court of 
king’s-bench, not only in term-time, but alfo during the 
vacation, by a fiat from the chief judice, or any other of 
the judges, and extends into all parts of the king’s domi¬ 
nions : for the king is at all times entitled to have an 
account why the liberty of any of his fubjects is re¬ 
drained, wherever that redraint may be infiidled. If it 
id'ues 'in vacation, it is ufually returnable before the 
judge himfelf who awarded it, and he proceeds by him- 
felf thereon ; unlefs the term fliould intervene, and, 
then it may be returned in court. Indeed, if the party 
were privileged in the courts of common pleas and exJ 
chequer, as being'an officer or fuitor of the court, an, 
habeas corpus ad fubjiciendum might alfo have been award¬ 
ed front thence ; and, if the caufe of imprifonment were 
paljajibly illegal, they might have dtfeharged him ; . 
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