Writs Act

Famous quotes containing the words writs and/or act:

“I spent my life mixin’ with your breed, and I don’t like it. Get me. You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers and politicians with the gimmes, writs of habeas corpus, witnesses that don’t remember overnight, but we’ll get through to you, just like we got all the rest.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)

“To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)