CORPUS

Lat. (You haye the body.) The name giv:en to a 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 habea, COf'1>U8 ad BUbjiciendum, (see mfra.) -Habea■ corpus act. The English statute of 31 Car. II. c. 2, i■ the original and prominen.t h(U)eN corpus act. It was amended and supP.leme"nted by St. 56 Geo. III. c. 100. And sittnlar statutes have been enacted in all the Un.ited States. This act 111 justly regarded as the great constitutional rua,ranty of personal liberty.-Ha'beail oo:rpuil ad deliber-dum. et, reclplendum. A writ which is i ued to remove, for.tnal, a person confined In one coun.t;r [s. 560]