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Habeas Corpus Act
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Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum
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Arrest
statues for securing the liberty of the subject against unlawful arrests and suits are Magna Charta and the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), which is amended and enforced by 56 Geo. 3, c. 100. A person
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Habeas corpora juratorum
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Prerogative of mercy
offences against a popular or penal statute, after information brought: 3 Inst. 238. By the passing of the Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (31 Car. 2, c. 2), Chit. Stat. tit. 'Habeas Corpus,' the offence of sending a subject to
discharge
[a party seeking a total ] 3 : release from confinement [ordering a conditional of the alien on habeas corpus "Harvard Law Review"] 4 : the act of removing an obligation or liability (as by payment of a
Abduction
assault and false imprisonment. Where the person carried away is taken abroad the offence falls within the (English) Habeas Corpus Act, 1679 (31 Car. 2, c. 2), s. 11. (4) The removal of a ward of Court out of
Magna Carta
liberties. The other three great charters of English Liberty are the Petition of Right (3 Car. (1628)), the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2 (1679)), and the Bill of Rights (1 Will. SM. (1689)). Also spelled Magna charta, Black's
Pr'munire
an offence within the statutes of pr'munire, or as it is shortly called, a pr'munire; and the (English) Habeas Corpus Act, 31 Car. 2, c. 2, s. 11, Whereby it is still a pr'munire to send any subject of
Pardon
the liberty of the subject, the committing any man to prison out of the realm is, by the Habeas Corpus Act (31 Car. 2, c. 2), made a pr'munire (see that title), unpardonable even by the Crown; and (2)
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