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2005 Rhode Island Code - CHAPTER 10-9 — Habeas Corpus
- § 10-9-1 — General right to writ.
- § 10-9-2 — [Repealed.].
- § 10-9-3 — Application for writ – Contents.
- § 10-9-4 — Issuance of writ – Forms.
- § 10-9-5 — Court to which writ returnable.
- § 10-9-6 — Return to Providence superior court when other courts not in session.
- § 10-9-7 — Receipt and return of writ.
- § 10-9-8 — Return or statement by person to whom writ directed.
- § 10-9-9 — Signature and oath to return or statement.
- § 10-9-10 — Body brought with return or statement.
- § 10-9-11 — Illness of person confined.
- § 10-9-12 — Remand, bail, or commitment pending judgment.
- § 10-9-13 — Failure of officer to deliver copy of process by which prisoner held.
- § 10-9-14 — Examination of cause of restraint – Adjournment.
- § 10-9-15 — Notice to party on whose process restraint based.
- § 10-9-16 — Notice to attorney general or complainant in criminal cases.
- § 10-9-17 — Denial of facts in return or statement – Hearing of evidence.
- § 10-9-18 — Discharge on failure to show cause for restraint.
- § 10-9-19 — Admission to bail.
- § 10-9-20 — Order as to bail when person held on civil mesne process.
- § 10-9-21 — Remand to custody.
- § 10-9-22 — Appeals and exceptions barred – Subsequent application to supreme court allowed.
- § 10-9-23 — Enforcement of writ by attachment as for contempt.
- § 10-9-24 — Attachment and commitment of sheriff or deputy.
- § 10-9-25 — Forfeiture for failure to receive and execute writ.
- § 10-9-26 — Precept after disobedience of writ.
- § 10-9-27 — Transfer or concealment of prisoner with intent to avoid writ.
- § 10-9-28 — Common law remedies not barred by penalties.
- § 10-9-29 — Rearrest of discharged person.
- § 10-9-30 — Judicial powers not restrained.
- § 10-9-31 — Power of justices to admit to bail.
- § 10-9-32 — Judicial power to bring in criminal defendants and witnesses.
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