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A legal order that protects people from being held in prison without being charged with a crime is known as what?

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Answer: Hebeous Corpus

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A recourse in law through which a person can report an unlawful detention or imprisonment to a court and request that the court order the custodian of the person, usually a prison official, to bring the prisoner to court, to determine whether the detention is lawful.

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