habeas corpus

英 [ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːpəs]

美 [ˌheɪbiəs ˈkɔːrpəs]

n.  人身保护法(对被拘禁者的羁押期予以限制)

法律

牛津词典

noun

• 人身保护法（对被拘禁者的羁押期予以限制）
  a law that states that a person who has been arrested should not be kept in prison longer than a particular period of time unless a judge in court has decided that it is right

柯林斯词典

• 人身保护令（据此令当事人可请求先由法庭裁决其受拘禁是否合法）
  Habeas corpusis a law 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.

英英释义

noun

• the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment
• a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge
  Synonym:writ of habeas corpus

双语例句

• Once a supporter of closing down Guant á namo Bay, he recently criticised the Supreme Court for daring to suggest that inmates deserve the right of habeas corpus.
  他曾经支持关闭关塔那摩监狱，但最近又抨击最高法院提出维护犯人人身保护权的建议。他在刑讯和移民改革两个议题上也逐渐偏右。
• Trial by jury and the law of habeas corpus were practically suspended.
  陪审团审讯和人身保护法实际上都已废除。
• During the civil war, writs of habeas corpus were ignored, and civil trials gave way to military trials.
  南北战争时期，人身保护法遭到践踏，民事审判被军事审讯所代替。
• It is of little consolation to a poor peasant that habeas corpus exists, if he cannot get a lawyer.
  一个贫苦农民如果请不起律师，人身保护令的存在对他是没有什么安慰作用的。
• We have the Habeas Corpus Act and we respect it.
  我们有人身保护法案，而且我们尊重它。
• He commanded those powerful armies till then assembled in modern warfare, he enforced conscription of soldiers for the first time in American history and under imperative necessity he abolished the rights of habeas corpus.
  他命令强大的军队集结投入现代战争，他在美国历史上首次厉行征兵制度，在紧急形势的要求下，他废除了人身保护令所赋予的权力。
• Animal rights campaigners filed a habeas corpus petition-a document more typically used to challenge the legality of a person's detention or imprisonment-in November on behalf of Sandra, a 29-year-old Sumatran orangutan at the Buenos Aires zoo.
  29岁的桑德拉是布宜诺斯艾利斯动物园内的一只苏门答腊猩猩。今年11月份，动物权利倡导者代表桑德拉提交了一份人身保护请愿书，这是专门用于挑战人身拘留或监禁合法性的文件。
• Habeas Corpus is defendant's basic criminal Procedural right of appeal in the federal system in America.
  美国联邦法院人身保护是对州法院刑事被告提供的基本性申诉权利。
• In other words, although the gestation and formation of the habeas corpus system is earlier than the maturation of modern constitutionalism and rule of law, the latter practically becomes the foundation for the smooth implementation of the Habeas Corpus Act.
  换言之，虽然人身保护令制度的孕育和形成要早于现当代的宪政法治的成熟，但后世的宪政法治思想实际上又是《人身保护令》得以顺利实施的基础。
• Two days later he was released at the habeas corpus hearing.
  两天以后，按人身保护令开庭审讯，他被释放了。