Interdictum_de_homine_libero_exhibendo
Interdictum de homine libero exhibendo
Mechanism to challenge unlawful detention
The interdictum de homine libero exhibendo was a form of interdictum in Roman law ordering a man who unlawfully holds a free man as a slave to produce this man in court. In modern Roman-Dutch law it has been developed into a mechanism to challenge unlawful detention, equivalent to the writ of habeas corpus in English common law.