Habeas corpus
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A writ to bring a person before a court or a judge, most frequently used to ensure that a person's imprisonment, detention, or commitment is legal.
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See also
- Arbitrary arrest and detention
- corpus delicti – other Latin legal term using corpus, here meaning the fact of a crime having been committed, not the body of the person being detained nor (as sometimes inaccurately used) to the body of the victim
- Habeas corpus petitions of Guantanamo Bay detainees
- Habeas Corpus (play), by the English writer and playwright Alan Bennett.
- Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007
- Habeas Data
- Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
- List of legal Latin terms
- Military Commissions Act of 2006
- Murder conviction without a body
- Philippine Habeas Corpus Cases
- Remand (detention)#Detention before charge
- Security of person
- Recurso de amparo (Writ of amparo)
- Subpoena ad testificandum
- Subpoena duces tecum
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