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Definition of False imprisonment
1. Noun. (law) confinement without legal authority.
Lexicographical Neighbors of False Imprisonment
Literary usage of False imprisonment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1913)
""The constituent elements of false imprisonment are, first, the detention or
restraint, and second, the unlawfulness of the detention or restraint" 12 Amer. ..."
2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"false imprisonment. Any unlawful restraint of a man's liberty, whether In a place
made use of for Imprisonment generally, or in one used only on the ..."
3. An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius by William Selwyn (1845)
"I. Of the Nature of the Action for false Imprisonment, and in what Cases it may
be maintained, p.. II. Statutes relating to the Action for false ..."
4. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"false imprisonment is any unlawful restraint of a per- son's liberty, ...
false imprisonment is an offense against the liberty of a person, ..."
5. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"false imprisonment 84. false imprisonment is any unlawful restraint of a person's
... false imprisonment is an offense against the liberty of a person, ..."
6. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1898)
"In a complaint seeking to recover for the false Imprisonment of the plaintiff,
... POLICE COMMISSIONERS ARE LIABLE to an action for false imprisonment in ..."
7. A Treatise of the Pleas of the Crown: Or, A System of the Principal Matters by William Hawkins, John Curwood (1824)
"false imprisonment is necessarily attended with assault and battery, ... But an
aggravated species of false imprisonment is the privately carrying off any ..."
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