Terms Used In Wisconsin Statutes 782.26

  • Person: includes all partnerships, associations and bodies politic or corporate. See Wisconsin Statutes 990.01
  • Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.

When it appears from the return to such writ that the prisoner is in custody on any process under which any other person has an interest in continuing imprisonment no order shall be made for discharge until it shall appear that the interested person or attorney, if the person has one, if to be found within the county, shall have sufficient notice of the time and place at which writ is returnable.