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What does habeas mean?

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Noun
  1. (law) Shortened form of habeas corpus.
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And there are no territorial limits to the reach of habeas corpus articulated in the text.
A habeas corpus writ requires the release of a prisoner held without trial or lawful charge.
During the war, there were six efforts by internees or prisoners to exercise the writ of habeas corpus in the federal district court in Honolulu.
The act legitimized Lincoln's suspensions of habeas corpus and approved future suspensions for the duration of the war.
When we use habeas corpus, we protect the safety of both our physical selves and our moral selves.
Once a power to detain is held to depend on precedent fact, then of course anyone subjected to it can properly invoke habeas corpus.

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