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Title 10 - Courts and Civil...
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Chapter 10-9 Habeas Corpus
Chapter 10-9 Habeas Corpus
Section 10-9-1 General right to writ.
Section 10-9-2 Repealed.
Section 10-9-3 Application for writ - Contents.
Section 10-9-4 Issuance of writ - Forms.
Section 10-9-5 Court to which writ returnable.
Section 10-9-6 Return to Providence superior court when other courts not in session.
Section 10-9-7 Receipt and return of writ.
Section 10-9-8 Return or statement by person to whom writ directed.
Section 10-9-9 Signature and oath to return or statement.
Section 10-9-10 Body brought with return or statement.
Section 10-9-11 Illness of person confined.
Section 10-9-12 Remand, bail, or commitment pending judgment.
Section 10-9-13 Failure of officer to deliver copy of process by which prisoner held.
Section 10-9-14 Examination of cause of restraint - Adjournment.
Section 10-9-15 Notice to party on whose process restraint based.
Section 10-9-16 Notice to attorney general or complainant in criminal cases.
Section 10-9-17 Denial of facts in return or statement - Hearing of evidence.
Section 10-9-18 Discharge on failure to show cause for restraint.
Section 10-9-19 Admission to bail.
Section 10-9-20 Order as to bail when person held on civil mesne process.
Section 10-9-21 Remand to custody.
Section 10-9-22 Appeals and exceptions barred - Subsequent application to supreme court allowed.
Section 10-9-23 Enforcement of writ by attachment as for contempt.
Section 10-9-24 Attachment and commitment of a member of the division of sheriffs.
Section 10-9-25 Forfeiture for failure to receive and execute writ.
Section 10-9-26 Precept after disobedience of writ.
Section 10-9-27 Transfer or concealment of prisoner with intent to avoid writ.
Section 10-9-28 Common law remedies not barred by penalties.
Section 10-9-29 Rearrest of discharged person.
Section 10-9-30 Judicial powers not restrained.
Section 10-9-31 Power of justices to admit to bail.
Section 10-9-32 Judicial power to bring in criminal defendants and witnesses.