habeas corpus /.heibias 'kxpss; 'hebias 'korpas/ n (Lat; legal) (拉; 法律) (writ of) ~, order requiring a person to be brought before a judge or into court, esp to investigate the right of the law to keep him in prison, 人身保護令 (要求將人移送法院處理之令狀, 特別為調(diào)查應(yīng)否受拘留者) 0