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[5/5] Reyes vs. Major Juan Crisologo

[5/5] FRANCISCO REYES, petitioner, vs. Major JUAN CRISOLOGO, Provost Marshal, Military Police, Philippine Army, respondent.

G.R. No. L-54 | 1945-09-27

The twenty-ninth chapter of Magna Charta says: "Ne corpus liberi hominis capiatur nec imprisonetur nec disseisietur nec utlagetur nec exeletur, nec aliquo modo destruatur, nec rex eat vel mittat super cum vi, nisi per judicium parium suorom, vel per legem terrae." No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseized or outlawed or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will the king pass upon him, or commit him to prison, unless by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the land.

By this chapter "alone," says Sir William Blackstone, "would have merited the title that it bears of the Great Charter." (4 Bl. Com., 424.)

Justice Cooley, in...