Habeas corpus
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habeas-corpus-182-18098996
title:
Habeas corpus
text:
Habeas corpus is a recourse in law by which a report can be made to a court in the events of unlawful detention or imprisonment, requesting that the court order the person's custodian to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether their detention is lawful. The writ of habeas corpus was described in the eighteenth century by William Blackstone as a "great and efficacious writ in all manner of illegal confinement". It is a summons with the force of a court order; it is addressed to the cust
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Court action challenging unlawful detention
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus
date created:
2001-11-07T13:57:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T03:36:36Z
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