Thread:Luke707/@comment-4035909-20120211153859/@comment-2217546-20120211210310

It's Latin for: "You may have the body." It is a doctrine on which the Founding Fathers of the United States Constitution built a clause of the Bill of Rights; it pertains to giving someone a right to trial and making them aware of what they've done wrong. In other words, you can't imprison someone without giving them a trial, and convicting them of what they've done.