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habeas corpus The country has a primitive legal system with no right of habeas corpus, and suspects often are shot before they ever see a judge. ˈhæbiəs ˈkɔrpəs

Accepted Answer

An order to bring a jailed person before a judge or court to find out if that person should really be in jail. The literal meaning of habeas corpus is “You shall have the body”—that is, the judge must have the person charged with a crime brought into the courtroom to hear what he's been charged with. Through much of human history, and in many countries still today, a person may be imprisoned on the orders of someone in the government and kept behind bars for years without ever getting a chance to defend himself, or even knowing what he's done wrong. In England, the right to be brought before a judge to hear the charges and answer them was written into law over 300 years ago, and the U.S. adopted the British practice in its Constitution.

word	habeas corpus
definition	An order to bring a jailed person before a judge or court to find out if that person should really be in jail.
eg_sentence	The country has a primitive legal system with no right of habeas corpus, and suspects often are shot before they ever see a judge.
explanation	The literal meaning of habeas corpus is “You shall have the body”—that is, the judge must have the person charged with a crime brought into the courtroom to hear what he's been charged with. Through much of human history, and in many countries still today, a person may be imprisoned on the orders of someone in the government and kept behind bars for years without ever getting a chance to defend himself, or even knowing what he's done wrong. In England, the right to be brought before a judge to hear the charges and answer them was written into law over 300 years ago, and the U.S. adopted the British practice in its Constitution.
IPA	ˈhæbiəs ˈkɔrpəs

Person Habeas Judge Corpus Charged Brought Hear Years