No proceeding or order under subchapters I-IV of this chapter shall discharge any person imprisoned by the authority of the United States from such imprisonment, nor shall any such proceeding or order discharge any person from imprisonment for any other cause than that to which it relates. Such person, notwithstanding such proceeding or order, shall be detained for such other cause, according to the nature and effect thereof.

Code 1852, § ?2727; Code 1915, § ?4646; Code 1935, § ?5104; 10 Del. C. 1953, § ?7372;