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HABEAS CORPUS – literally means “you have the
body”; an order to bring the body in court; a name
given to various units having their object to bring
a party before a court; a writ requiring that
prisoner be brought before a court at a stated time
and place to decide the legality of his detention or
imprisonment.

HABITUAL CRIMINALS – are those who continue to
commit crime because of deficiency of intelligence
and lack of self – control.

HABITUAL DELINQUENCY – in law, within 10 years
from last release or last conviction of the crime of
falsification, robbery, estafa, theft, serious or less
serious physical injuries, the offender is found
guilty of any of said crimes a third time or oftener.

HACKING OR CRACKING – is the process of gaining
unauthorized entry into a computer system.

HAIR – is a specialized epithelial outgrowth of the
skin which occur everywhere on the human body
except on the palm of the hands and the sole of the
feet. Hair is not completely round but maybe oval
flattened. Its width is not always the same along
its length. It starts out pointed and narrow and
then strays more or less the same.

HALF-LIFE – is the duration of action of a drug. This
is the period of time required for the concentration
or amount of drug in the body to be reduced by
one-half.

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