Habeas Corpus
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
(You have the body.) The name given toa variety of writs, (of which these were anciently the emphatic words,) having for their object to bring a party before a court or judge. In common usage, and whenever these words are used alone, they are understood to mean the hebeas corpus ad subjiciendum, (gq. 0.)