habeas corpus

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Another action that he took was to suspend the right of habeas corpus.
林肯縂統(tǒng)所採(cǎi)取的另一行動(dòng)是暫緩執(zhí)行人身保護(hù)權(quán)令。
Paradoxically, it was the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, an attempt to give statutory force to the common-law writ, which paved the way for its gradual erosion.
1679年簽署了人身保護(hù)法，作爲(wèi)賦予普通法令狀以法定傚力的一次嘗試，矛盾的是，正是這項(xiàng)法令爲(wèi)人生保護(hù)令的逐漸腐蝕鋪平了道路。
But his very passion for those rights brought him bounding to their defence at any sign of erosion: rumours of torture, arrests of hecklers, carelessness for habeas corpus.
但正是他對(duì)這些權(quán)利的熱衷使他在防範(fàn)任何法律漏洞的跡象時(shí)表現(xiàn)得很活躍。這些跡象包括關(guān)於酷刑的謠言，逮捕質(zhì)問(wèn)者，人身保護(hù)權(quán)的疏忽。

Habeas corpus is a legal term for the right to have a judge decide if a person is being detained lawfully.
Suspending habeas corpus means that a prisoner can be held without trial for as long as the government wants.
Another action that he took was to suspend the right of habeas corpus.

The prisoners there have access to lawyers, and the federal courts oversee habeas corpus cases.
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a legal order that states that a person in prison must appear before and be judged by a court of law before he or she can be forced by law to stay in prison

Habeas corpus is a writ that states that a person cannot be kept in prison unless they have first been brought before a court of law, which decides whether it is legal for them to be kept in prison.