The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - History of the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus in England

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Series: New York Weekly v. 21 no. 19 — page 4
Subject / Tag: Sketch
Part of: New York Weekly, v. XXI, no. 19, March 29, 1866 (Issue)
Date: March 29, 1866
First Sentence: The great English "Writ of Right"-popularly designated as the Writ of Habeas Corpus because of the judicial mandate, to "have the body" before the court, with which it opens-has always been regarded, in the of late rather unmotherly "Mother Country," as second in sacredness and importance to the great Magna Charta alone, that took its form in 1215, and more than four centuries before the former, which was not enacted till 1679.

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