Sentence examples for writ that from inspiring English sources

Habeas corpus is a writ that is used to bring a party who has been criminally convicted in state court into federal court.

It is a sense of his own god-like importance, as opposed to Holy Writ, that persuades him that his convictions on the moment a new life begins – "it is just my view" – should prevail over women's choices.

The nature of the writ of habeas corpus that cannot be suspended must be defined by the common-law writ that was available at the time of the founding.

He never failed to carry with him and display the writ that had freed him.

In the music industry, it is writ that no major composer's anniversary shall go unacknowledged.

He called it "an ominous writ" that the F.B.I. issued "in tones sounding virtually as a biblical commandment".

However, I hope Obama and Gates do carry through revising the Bush family writs that have sought to shroud the human cost of our wars from the public.

Browne admitted that POWER remains nervous about the writs that didn't pass.

The ancient remedies of certiorari, mandamus, prohibition and habeas corpus were originally only available to the British Crown and thus termed prerogative writs, that is, writs that could be issued at the prerogative of the sovereign.

There is a hidden language in how we stand together, Schlötter told me — a body language writ large that's so rich and specific that even strangers can decipher it.

U.S. Marshals Service, 474 U.S. 34, 43 (1985) ("Where a statute specifically addresses the particular issue at hand, it is that authority, and not the All Writs Act, that is controlling".).