Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
corpus cum causa
[Law Latin "the body with the cause"] Hist. A writ issuing out of Chancery to remove both a per-son and a record from an inferior court in order to review a judgment issued by the inferior court."The first use of the writ to challenge imprisonment was in cases of privilege; an officer of a central court, or a litigant there, could be released from imprisonment in another court by writ of privilege in habeas corpus form. The Court of Chancery at the same time developed a similar procedure for reviewing the cause of imprisonment in an inferior tribunal; this species of writ was called corpus cum causa, and it became a common remedy against the misuse of borough jurisdiction in the fifteenth century." J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 168 (3d ed. 1990).
habeas corpus cum causa
See habeas corpus ad faciendum et recipiendum. Habeas Corpus Act. 1. One of the four great charters of English liberty (31 Car. 2, 1679), securing to English subjects speedy relief from all unlawful imprisonments. 0 The other three great charters are Magna Carta, the Petition of Right (3 Car. 1, 1628), and the Bill of Rights (1 Wm. & M. 1689). The Habeas Corpus Act does not apply in Scotland. 2. A statute deriving ultimately from the English statute and enacted in the United States as a constitutional guarantee of personal liberty.
habeas corpus cum causa.
See habeas corpus ad faciendum et recipiendum under HABEAS CORPUS.