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Habeas corpus: from England to empire

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We call habeas corpus the 'Great Writ of Liberty' but it was actually a writ of power.

In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than 500 years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device.

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Harvard University Press
0674056477 / 9780674056473
eBook (Adobe Pdf)
15/03/2012
English
512 pages
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