That statute authorized the Chancellor to deliver writs on consimilicasu (in instances having great similarity to others for which the delivery of the writ was already established).
Moreover, Otis added emotionally, enforcement of the writs was a violation of an Englishman's established right to freedom from an invasion of his own home.
It also freed military officers from the necessity of surrendering to civil courts persons arrested under their orders, or even making answers to writs issued from such courts.