habeas corpus

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Another action that he took was to suspend the right of habeas corpus.
林肯总统所采取的另一行动是暂缓执行人身保护权令。
Paradoxically, it was the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, an attempt to give statutory force to the common-law writ, which paved the way for its gradual erosion.
1679年签署了人身保护法，作为赋予普通法令状以法定效力的一次尝试，矛盾的是，正是这项法令为人生保护令的逐渐腐蚀铺平了道路。
But his very passion for those rights brought him bounding to their defence at any sign of erosion: rumours of torture, arrests of hecklers, carelessness for habeas corpus.
但正是他对这些权利的热衷使他在防范任何法律漏洞的迹象时表现得很活跃。这些迹象包括关于酷刑的谣言，逮捕质问者，人身保护权的疏忽。

Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.
Suspending habeas corpus means that a prisoner can be held without trial for as long as the government wants.
Another action that he took was to suspend the right of habeas corpus.

The prisoners there have access to lawyers, and the federal courts oversee habeas corpus cases.
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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

Habeas corpus is a writ that states that a person cannot be kept in prison unless they have first been brought before a court of law, which decides whether it is legal for them to be kept in prison.