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Reynato Puno's writ of amparo—Spanish for protection—will bar military officers in judicial proceedings to issue denial answers regarding petitions on disappearances or extrajudicial executions, which were legally permitted in habeas corpus proceedings. [17]
Habeas corpus (/ ˈ h eɪ b i ə s ˈ k ɔːr p ə s / ⓘ; from Medieval Latin, lit. ' you should have the body ') [1] is an equitable remedy [2] by which a report can be made to a court alleging the unlawful detention or imprisonment of an individual, and requesting that the court order the individual's custodian (usually a prison official) to bring the prisoner to court, to determine ...
In United States law, habeas corpus (/ ˈ h eɪ b i ə s ˈ k ɔːr p ə s /) is a recourse challenging the reasons or conditions of a person's confinement under color of law.A petition for habeas corpus is filed with a court that has jurisdiction over the custodian, and if granted, a writ is issued directing the custodian to bring the confined person before the court for examination into ...
The Spanish Constitution (Spanish: Constitución Española) [a] is the supreme law of the Kingdom of Spain. It was enacted after its approval in a constitutional referendum; it represents the culmination of the Spanish transition to democracy. The current version was approved in 1978, three years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
Habeas data is an individual complaint filed before a constitutional court and related to the privacy of personal data. The first such complaint is the habeas corpus (which is roughly translated as "[we command] you have the body").
The Criminal Code is a fundamental law of the Spanish criminal law, because it is a limit to the ius puniendi (or «right to punish») of the State. The Code was enacted by the Spanish Parliament on 8 November 1995 [1] and it was published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) on 23 November. [2] The Code is in force since 25 May 1996. [2]
They aided Standing Bear, who in April 1879 sued for a writ of habeas corpus in U.S. District Court in Omaha, Nebraska. Acting as interpreter for Standing Bear was Susette LaFlesche, an accomplished and educated bilingual Omaha of mixed-race background. The case is called United States ex rel. Standing Bear v. Crook.
Likewise, in its article 31, the Constitutional Elements offers, speaking of the inviolability of the home, the guarantees of «the celebrated Corpus huves Act of England», referring to the Habeas Corpus Act 1640, which contained the protection of individual liberty from non-jurisdictional detention, including the Crown, when such detention ...