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Show . HABEAS CORPUS. - Tip never aees a fat man without remembering re-membering the atory that th, Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon rmc, owee the bleeeed privilege of the habeas corpus to a nameless fat Individual. In-dividual. Ths tradition le that the ha. bees corpus act waa put on the English I statute book as the outcome of a jok, I ,t the expense of a bully lord. It waa to the Anal dlvlelon In the house of lords, and lxrd Grey and Lord Norrla were appointed ap-pointed tellers. Lord Norrla waa not attentive at-tentive to hla duties, and when a very fet lord came In Lord Grey counted the obese person for ten. at A ret aa a joke: but seeing Lord Norrls hsd not observed the other noble lord went on wtUi the mlecount. By that means, says Bishop Burnet, the bill was passed. I,ong afterward after-ward the American colonies took over the act from England New York Press. |