Habeas corpus : from England to empire /
A revisionist history of habeas corpus the world's most revered legal device. Habeas corpus was not established to protect the rights of the individual but rather to protect the individual from abusive judges and jailers.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2010.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The jailer jailed : 1605 and beyond
- Writing habeas corpus
- Writ of the prerogative
- Making judgments
- Making jurisdiction
- Making liberties, making subjects
- Legislators as judges
- Writ imperial
- The palladium of liberty in law's empire.