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Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire
Habeas Corpus From England to Empire
Author: Paul D. Halliday
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 r...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674064201
ISBN-10: 0674064208
Publication Date: 4/2/2012
Pages: 512
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Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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