Crossword-Solution: HABEAS
We have 17 clues for the answer “HABEAS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| First word of legal writ, important since 1679. | 1 answer |
| ___ corpus (legal principle) | 1 answer |
| Writ word | 1 answer |
| Writ of __ corpus | 1 answer |
| Writ introduction? | 1 answer |
| Word with corpus | 1 answer |
| Start of a writ | 1 answer |
| Literally "have," in law | 1 answer |
| Literally "have" | 1 answer |
| Corpus preceder | 1 answer |
| Corpus header | 1 answer |
| Corpus front | 1 answer |
| -- corpus (writ) | 1 answer |
| -- corpus (common writ) | 1 answer |
| Corpus follower | 10 answers |
| CORPUS Christi | 12 answers |
| CORPUS ___ | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with HABEAS (5)
Pickwick, ‘I suppose they are getting the _Habeas- corpus_ ready?’ ‘Yes,’ said Sam, ‘and I vish they’d bring out the have-his-carcase.
Were the father to be joined in the proceedings, the writ of Habeas Corpus would be the correct remedy.
The struggle was for chartered rights--for English liberties--for the cause of Algernon Sidney and John Hampden--for trial by jury--the Habeas Corpus and Magna Charta.
When he recovered, he found Harpiton diligently assisting in his recovery, more in the fear of losing his place than in that of losing his master: the prince’s first inquiry was for the prisoner he had been on the point of taking at the moment when his habeas corpus was so unseasonably suspended.
Now, Monsieur Malin, leave this house!” The Conventionalist did leave it, and he harangued the crowd, dwelling on the sacred rights of the domestic hearth, the habeas corpus and the English “home.” He told them that the law and the people were sovereigns, that the law _was_ the people, and that the people could only act through the law, and that power was vested in the law.
Quotes with HABEAS (3)
Twas now the very witching time of night, When churchyards groan, and graves give up their dead, And many a mischievous, enfranchised sprite Had long since burst his bonds of stone or lead, And hurried off, with schoolboy-like delight, To play his pranks near some poor wretch's bed, Sleeping, perhaps serenely as a porpoise, Nor dreaming of this fiendish Habeas Corpus.
This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually’ innocent.
In England and, later, the United Kingdom, Habeas Corpus is a right of great antiquity: Anyone who is arrested must be brought before a court, but this does not apply in continental countries.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1951–2021).