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HABEAS CORPUS ACT 1816 - SECT 1

Judges to issue, in vacation, writs of habeas corpus returnable immediately, in cases other than for criminal matter, or for debt, or on civil process.

1.] Where any person shall be confined or restrained of his or her liberty
(otherwise than for some criminal or supposed criminal matter, and except
persons imprisoned for debt or by process in any civil suit)... in Ireland, it
shall and may be lawful for any one of the barons of the Exchequer, or of the
justices of one bench or the other in Ireland, and they are hereby required,
upon complaint made to them by or on the behalf of the person so confined or
restrained, if it shall appear by affidavit or affirmation (in cases where by
law an affirmation is allowed) that there is a probable and reasonable ground
for such complaint, to award in vacation time a writ of habeas corpus ad
subjiciendum, under the seal of such court, whereof he or they shall then be
judges or one of the judges, to be directed to the person or persons in whose
custody or power the party so confined or restrained shall be, returnable
immediately before the person so awarding the same, or before any other judge
of the court under the seal of which the said writ issued.

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