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Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1891)
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In practice. <A writ directed to the person detaining another, and commanding him to produce the body of the prisoner, (or person detained,) with the day and cause of his caption and detention, ad faciendum, subjiciendum et recipiendum, to do, submit to, and receive whaisoever the judge or court awarding the writ shall consider in that be half. 3 Bl. Comm. 151; 3 Steph. Comm. Sir William Blackstone the most celebrated writ in the English law, and the great and efficacious writ in all manner of illegal confinement. 3 Bl. Comm. 129, HABEAS CORPUS AD TESTIFI-