corpus

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From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

As president, he didn’t when he suspended the writ of habeas corpus early in the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

And there’s this one, a pioneering one in California criminal law: a crime even without a corpse, the body of evidence — the corpus delicti.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2026

They allow prisoners to return to court by filing a writ of habeas corpus and present evidence of their innocence.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2026

In fact, the corpus of writings in classical Nahuatl, the language of the Alliance, is even larger than the corpus of texts in classical Greek.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann