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Definition of Detainments
1. detainment [n] - See also: detainment
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detainments
Literary usage of Detainments
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Marine Insurance: Its Principles and Practice by William David Winter (1919)
"... arrests, restraints and detainments of all kings, princes, or people, of what
nation, condition or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, ..."
2. Marine Insurance: Its Principles and Practice by William D. Winter (1919)
"... arrests, restraints and detainments of all kings, princes, or people, of what
nation, condition or quality soever, barratry of the master and mariners, ..."
3. The Reports of the Most Learned Sir Edmund Saunders, Knt: Of Several by Edmund Saunders, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, John Williams (1845)
"... jettisons, letters of mart and counter-mart, surpri- sals, takings at sea (10),
arrests, restraints and detainments &c. entry is of very ancient date, ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Insurance of Every Kind by Joseph Asbury Joyce (1917)
"held no excuse for breach of the warranty, even though the policy contained the
clause against "restraints and detainments of kings, princes, ..."
5. Marine Insurance by Solomon Stephen Huebner (1920)
"(7) "Restraints and detainments of All Kings, Princes, or People of What Nation,
Condition, or Quality Soever."— " Restraint" has reference to any ..."
6. Briefs on the Law of Insurance by Roger William Cooley, Lawrence Vold (1905)
"(g) Arrests, restraints, and detainments. Questions as to perils of arrests,
restraints, or detainments are intimately connected with the risk of illicit ..."
7. A Digest of the Law of Insurance: Being an Analysis of Fire, Marine, Life by Oliver Baker Sansum (1876)
"On cargo, including risk of restraints, detainments, etc. She put into New York
for repairs, was unable to procure money to make them, and the cargo was ..."
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