HABEAS CORPUS RIGHTS Under the concept of habeas corpus as developed in Anglo-American jurisprudence, persons who are deprived of their liberty have the right to challenge through judicial inquiry the legality of their arrest or detention. The right to challenge oneâs arrest or detention is now incorporated in international human rights standards.
perÂ·vaÂ·sive. adj. Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate: the pervasive odor of garlic. [From Latin. , past participle of. , to pervade; see pervade .]. perÂ·vaâ²siveÂ·ly adv. perÂ·vaâ²siveÂ·ness n.
Adj. 1. pervasive-spreading or spread throughout; armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations; the pervasive odor of garlic; an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion. permeant, permeating, permeative. distributive-serving to distribute or allot or disperse.