De homine replegiando, literally personal replevin, is a legal remedy used to liberate a person from unlawful detention on bail, with a view to trying the question of the validity of the law under which the person is held in confinement. The term can also apply more broadly to cases in which a person is not imprisoned by the state, as in the case of Mary Ellen Wilson. It is described as the oldest common law freedom writ, which places it among the earliest common law remedies aimed at securing a person against unlawful confinement.
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It is the oldest common law freedom writ.
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