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When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled
are discussed more fully
She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise
and wholly remarkable" (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers
Habeas Corpus: From England to Empire When Emily is poisoned andWe call habeas corpus the Great Writ of Liberty. But it was actually a writ of power. In a work based on an unprecedented study of thousands of cases across more than five hundred years, Paul Halliday provides a sweeping revisionist account of the world's most revered legal device. In the decades around 1600, English judges used ideas about royal power to empower themselves to protect the king's subjects. The key was not the prisoner's "right" to
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