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Definition of Detains
1. detain [v] - See also: detain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detains
Literary usage of Detains
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"declaration must allege that the defendant unlawfully detains the property from
the plaintiff.1 And if the action is in the ccpit, it must show a wrongful ..."
2. Scotland by Walter Scott, Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1899)
"... but detains Mary a Prisoner—Question of her Guilt and Innocence—Morton's
Confession—Proofs by the Sonnets and Letters—Deemed inconclusive, ..."
3. A Selection of Leading Cases in Equity: With Notes by Horace Binney Wallace, Frederick Thomas White, John Innes Clark Hare, Owen Davies Tudor (1876)
"... be more reasonable than that the man who by wrong detains my property, should
be compelled ... detains ..."
4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"(NY) 555; and if the officer makes the arrest out of his bailiwick, or detains
the person unduly; 4 B. & C. 596; an arrest under a void writ constitutes a ..."
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