HABEAS CORPUS


Meaning of HABEAS CORPUS in English

Latin: a court petition which orders that a person being detained be produced before a judge for a hearing to decide whether the detention is lawful. Habeas corpus was one of the concessions the British Monarch made in the Magna Carta and has stood as a basic individual right against arbitrary arrest and imprisonment.

Duhaime's Law English dictionary.      Английский юридический словарь Duhaime .