habeas corpus was described in the eighteenth century by William Blackstone as a "great and efficacious writ in all manner of illegal confinement". To this day, it is still "universally known and celebrated as the 'Great Writ of Liberty.

Origins in England

Habeas corpus originally stems from the Assize of Clarendon of 1166, a reissuance of rights during the reign of Henry II of England. The

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