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Appropriate proceedings
power 'to issue directions or orders or writs', and the specific reference to 'writs in the nature of habeas corpus, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto and certiorari' is by way of illustration only, Bandhua Mukti Morcha v. Union of
False imprisonment
given a private reparation to the party as well by removing the actual confinement for the present by habeas corpus, as by subjecting the wrongdoer to an action of trespass, etc., usually called an action of false imprisonment,
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,
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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
extraordinary remedy
a procedure for obtaining judicial relief allowed when no other method is available, appropriate, or useful see also habeas corpus, mandamus, quo warranto
respondent
party in an equitable proceeding b : a party against whom a petition (as for a writ of habeas corpus) seeking relief is brought c : an answering party in a proceeding in juvenile court or family court
successive
following each other without interruption [ bankruptcy filings] 3 : of, relating to, or being a petition for habeas corpus that raises a claim already adjudicated suc·ces·sive·ly adv suc·ces·sive·ness n
Crown Office Rules, 1906
procedure of the Crown Side of the King's Bench Division of the High Court in Certiorari, Criminal Information, Habeas Corpus, Mandamus, Prohibition, Quo Warranto and other matters.
Duces tecum licet languidus
he cannot bring his prisoner without danger of death, he being adeo languidus; whereupon the Court grants a habeas corpus in the nature of a duces tecum licet languidus. But this has long since been out of use;
Prerogative Writs
issued upon extra-ordinary occasions on proper cause shown. They are the writs of procedendo, mandamus, prohibition, quo warranto, habeas corpus, and certiorari. Prerogative writs are privileges of an extraordinary kind granted by the court in certain cases, but
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