- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction: Hearing the Sighs of Prisoners
- I. Making Habeas Corpus
- 1. The Jailer Jailed: 1605 and Beyond
- 2. Writing Habeas Corpus
- 3. Writ of the Prerogative
- II. Using Habeas Corpus
- 4. Making Judgments
- 5. Making Jurisdiction
- 6. Making Liberties, Making Subjects
- III. Habeas Corpus, Bound and Unbound
- 7. Legislators as Judges
- 8. Writ Imperial
- 9. The Palladium of Liberty in Law’s Empire
- Appendix: A Survey of Habeas Corpus Use, 1500–1800
- Notes
- Manuscript Sources
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes
- Index


Habeas Corpus
From England to Empire
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$24.50 • £19.95 • €22.00
ISBN 9780674064201
Publication Date: 04/02/2012
Awards & Accolades
- 2011 Inner Temple Book Prize, Honourable Society of the Inner Temple
- A New Statesman Favorite Read of 2010