0 a legal order that states that a person in prison must appear before and be judged by a court of law before he or she can be forced by law to stay in prison
1 a legal action demanding that a prisoner be brought before a judge to make sure that he or she is not being held illegally
2 the right of someone who is in prison to appear in court so that a judge can decide whether that person is being kept in prison legally:
The writ of habeas corpus was used in relation to persons press-ganged into the navy, or in disputes over apprenticeship terms.
However, their assumption was that the cause of imprisonment to be expressed in habeas corpus proceedings was to be specific, not general.
This was a change from congressional legislation in 1789 that denied habeas corpus review in federal courts to prisoners held under state law.
There were various forms of the habeas corpus writ, of which the writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum is the most relevant to this article.
As they subsequently explained, by not making a final judgement they kept alive the possibility that further habeas corpus proceedings could take place.
Next the writ of habeas corpus was said to be one of right, not grace.
The military government punished lawyers who presented habeas corpus cases.
In favor of freedom, a denial of habeas corpus was not res judicata: a plaintiff might make successive applications for relief to several judges.
