<Li> Habeas corpus ad prosequendum: a writ ordering return with a prisoner for the purpose of "prosecuting" him before the court . </Li> <Li> Habeas corpus ad respondendum: a writ ordering return to allow the prisoner to "answer" to new proceedings before the court . </Li> <Li> Habeas corpus ad testificandum: a writ ordering return with the body of a prisoner for the purposes of "testifying". </Li> <P> Habeas corpus originally stems from the Assize of Clarendon, a re-issuance of rights during the reign of Henry II of England . In the 17th century the foundations for habeas corpus were "wrongly thought" to have originated in Magna Carta . This charter declared that: </P>

What does writ of habeas corpus ad testificandum mean