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Procedendo

A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari or otherwise is sent down again to the same

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

supported by an affidavit of the facts. (See (English) Crown Office Rules, 1906, rr. 216-230.) If a probable ground be shown that the party is imprisoned without a cause and has a right to be delivered, this … Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum (that you have the body to answer). This, the most celebrated prerogative writ in the English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to

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habeas corpus

innocence of the person held in custody, but whether the custody is unlawful under the U.S. Constitution. Common grounds for relief under the writ include a conviction based on illegally obtained evidence, a denial of effective assistance

Prohibition

forth concisely so much of the proceeding in the Court below as may be necessary to show the ground of the application; this procedure has been directed since the Jud. Act, 1873 [see South-Eastern Ry. Co. v. … Prohibition, a writ to forbid any court to proceed in any cause there depending, on the suggestion that the cognizance thereof

Procedendo

certiorari, or any like writ, and it appeared to the superior Court that it was removed on insufficient grounds. A suit once so remanded could not afterwards be removed before judgment in any Court whatever, 21 Jac.

Wilful disobedience

false return to a writ of habeas corpus, but an unintentional misrepresentation on a return is not a ground for committal. Civil contempt is punishable with imprisonment as well as fine, Sebastian M. Hongray v. Union of

Testatum Writ

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Quod permittat

before the abolition of real actions, lay against any person who erected a building, though on his own ground, so near to the house of another that it hung over or became a nuisance to it, Termes … Quod permittat, a writ which, before the abolition of real actions, lay against any person who erected a building, though on his

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