Forfeiture and penalty for failure to produce

  1. Law
  2. District of Columbia Code
  3. Particular Actions, Proceedings and Matters. [Enacted title]
  4. Habeas Corpus
  5. Forfeiture and penalty for failure to produce

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If an officer or other person to whom a writ of habeas corpus is directed neglects or refuses to:

(1) make return of the writ; or

(2) bring the body of the person detained —

according to the command of the writ, he shall forfeit to the person detained the sum of $500, and be liable to attachment and punishment as for a contempt.

(Dec. 23, 1963, 77 Stat. 584, Pub. L. 88-241, § 1.)

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 16-1904.

1973 Ed., § 16-1904.


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