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2025 Ohio Revised Code
Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies
Chapter 2725 | Habeas Corpus
Section 2725.21 | Forfeiture by Clerk for Refusal to Issue Writ.
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OH Rev Code § 2725.21 (2025)
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Effective: October 1, 1953
Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly
A clerk of a court who refuses to issue a writ of habeas corpus, after an allowance of such writ and a demand therefor, shall forfeit to the party aggrieved the sum of five hundred dollars.
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