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‖ habeas corpora Law.
[L. = thou (shalt) have the bodies.]
1. More fully habeas corpora juratorum (i.e. of the jury): a process formerly issued out of the Court of Common Pleas, directing the sheriff to compel the attendance of reluctant jurymen.
1476Plumpton Corr. 37, I send you now the habeas corpora and a coppie thereof, and you must desier the sheriffe to serve it. 1535tr. Littleton's Nat. Brev. 223 b (Stanf.) And if thenquest come nat at the day of this wrytte retourned, than shal go an habeas corpora, and after that a distres vnto they come. 1838Chitty Archbold's Pract. Crt. Q.B. i. i. ii. §8 (ed. 6) 405 If none of the special jurors mentioned in the..habeas corpora appear in court, the cause cannot be tried.
2. More fully habeas corpora nuper vicecomitis (i.e. of the late sheriff): a process for bringing an ex-sheriff to account to the crown or to his successor.
1838Chitty Archbold's Pract. Crt. Q.B. i. i. i. §5 (3). (ed. 6) 214 Get your clerk in court to obtain a rule for a habeas corpora to bring in the body of the sheriff. |