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writ of habeas corpus

The writ commands the officials who have custody of a prisoner to bring the prisoner before the court, so that the

Character. Witnesses to speak to the good character of a prisoner may be called by him in his defence, and, if

hard pain) [peine (or penance), probably a corrupted abbreviation of prisone, 3 Bl. Com. 325], an old punishment by which a

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after conviction of it, unless (see CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT) the prisoner gives evidence of good character, in which case, or after

cases the person so restrained is said to be a prisoner, so long as he has not his liberty freely to

Dungeon, such an underground prison as was formerly placed in the strongest part of a

Tolbooth, a prison, a custom-house, an exchange; also the place where goods are

the first division of misdemeanants, and not as a 'criminal prisoner' [(English) Prison Act, 1865, s. 67], and s. 6 of

an officer who had the custody of the Queen's Bench Prison. The 5 & 6 Vict. c. 22 abolished this office,

to be granted to every man committed or detained in prison or otherwise restrained, though by command of the sovereign, the

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