Habeas Corpus From England to Empire

Name: Habeas Corpus From England to Empire
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ISBN: 9780674064201

ISBN-10: 0674064208

ISBN-13: 9780674064201

Edition: 2010

Authors: Paul D. Halliday

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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 five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device.In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's "right" to "liberty"—these are modern idioms—but the possible wrongs committed by a jailer or anyone who ordered a prisoner detained. This focus on wrongs gave the writ the force necessary to protect ideas about rights as they developed outside of law. This…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

Paul D. Halliday is Professor of History at the University of Virginia.