Chapter 10-9 - HABEAS CORPUS

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Section 10-9-2 - [Repealed]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