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Definition of Habeas Corpus.

Gunpowder
Gunpowder
  HABEAS CORPUS.   [LATIN]
A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for the wrong crime.
 

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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Habit
Habit

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