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Habeas petitions described a broad range of carceral, institutional, and interpersonal confinement over the long nineteenth century, including those used to demand due process, resist enslavement, challenge child removal and reservation confinement, avoid deportation, present child custody claims and protest child marriage, and to challenge institutionalization and detention in private and state institutions. As a legal mechanism borrowed from British common law and guaranteed as a civil right in US federal and state constitutions, habeas provides a lens on a diverse community of legal actors.
Our encoding practice allows us to identify petitions in these three categories and to indicate where those categories overlap. In addition to these three general categories, our team has identified the specific carceral charge being challenged as well as the particular forms of institutional and interpersonal confinements being questioned.
You may also browse or search petitions by location and/or jurisdiction to learn more about the myriad complaints petitioners brought before judges in Arizona, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington between 1812 and 1924. Each case entry includes a full citation, a summary, links to people with a role in the case, a list of other people named, and any sites of significance. Visitors wanting access to full case files can contact the cited repository for information about obtaining copies. Those without institutional affiliations may request image scans from Dr. Jagodinsky directly. The Glossary defines the attributes used to structure data from the habeas petitions. The Code Book explains the relational structure of the data and functionality of the database website.
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19 results
Download JSON Download CSVIn the Matter of the Application of S. W. Hall for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: January 6, 1879
- Petition type(s): Carceral: cause unspecified | Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the Matter of the Application of Sam Pong for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: April 22, 1885
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
In the matter of the application of C. W. Hutchinson for writ of Habeas Corpus.
- Earliest record date: October 31, 1885
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
In the matter of the Application of L.S. Bartlett for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: July 9, 1890
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the Matter of the Application of Howard W. Zink for a writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: March 12, 1891
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody
In the matter of the application of Thomas W. Van Sciever for a writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: October 20, 1894
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody
In the matter of the application of Adolph Krug for writ of habeas corpus and release
- Earliest record date: October 23, 1893
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Petition denied
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the Matter of the application of O. J. Vallicott for a writ of Habeas Corpus, for the body of Benjamin D. Mills
- Earliest record date: May 15, 1897
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ dismissed
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the Matter of Application of W.E. Baker - Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: November 5, 1897
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody
In the Matter of the Application of Salfest A. Sylvester for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: December 26, 1898
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement | Carceral: fugitive from justice
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody | unknown
In the matter of the application of George E. Daniel for writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: October 26, 1901
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the matter of the Application of Ah Oy, alias Loy Sen for Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: July 14, 1904
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the Matter of the Application of L. J. Urann for Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: June 22, 1905
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the Matter of the Application of Frank D. Steel for Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: April 25, 1906
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Unknown
- Fate of bound party: Unknown
In the matter of the application of Morris Passovoy for writ H. C.
- Earliest record date: July 22, 1911
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ dismissed
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody
Habeas Corpus of W. F. Buchanan against Claude Bannick
- Earliest record date: February 19, 1912
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ dismissed
- Fate of bound party: Custody transferred to third party
Abraham Franklin, Plantiff V. Henry Dunn as Chief Police of City of Omaha Nebraska, Stephen Maloney, Fred Heil, Defendant
- Earliest record date: October 17, 1914
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement | Carceral: suspicious character
- Petition outcome: Writ allowed
- Fate of bound party: Released from custody
In the Matter of the Applicant Joseph G Armstrong on Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: January 29, 1915
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody
In the Matter of the Application of Willard V. Mathews for Writ of Habeas Corpus
- Earliest record date: January 31, 1923
- Petition type(s): Carceral: embezzlement
- Petition outcome: Writ denied
- Fate of bound party: Remained in custody
