{"data":{"id":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-589.15","jurisdiction":"us-mn","citation":"Minn. Stat. § 589.15","heading":"DISCHARGING PETITIONER HELD UNDER CIVIL PROCESS.","body":"If it appears on the return that the petitioner is in custody under a valid civil process of a court, the petitioner can be discharged only in the following cases:\n(1) if the jurisdiction of the court has been exceeded, either as to matter, place, sum, or person;\n(2) if, though the original imprisonment was lawful, yet, by some act, omission, or event which has taken place afterward, the person is entitled to be discharged;\n(3) if the process is defective in some matter of substance required by law, rendering it void;\n(4) if the process, though in proper form, has been issued in a case not allowed by law;\n(5) if the person having the custody of the petitioner under the process is not the person empowered by law to detain the petitioner; or\n(6) if the process is not authorized by a judgment or order of a court, or by a provision of law.","path":["EXTRAORDINARY WRITS; CONTEMPT; POSTCONVICTION RELIEF","CHAPTER 589. HABEAS CORPUS"],"source_url":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/589.15","current_through":"2025 Minnesota Statutes","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T22:10:50Z","sha256":"582955d3a3b864c60608091dc70a0a03c19961bfc1aefef982b1758adb6fda93","source_id":"us-mn","stale":false,"prev":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-589.14","next":"us-mn/minn.-stat.-589.16"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}