 The penalty for disobeying an equitable ‘common injunction’ and enforcing a common law judgment was imprisonment.The Chief Justice of the King's Bench, Sir Edward Coke, began the practice of issuing writs of "habeas corpus" that required the release of people imprisoned for contempt of chancery orders.This tension climaxed in the Earl of Oxford's case (1615) where a judgment of Chief Justice Coke was allegedly obtained by fraud.