false imprisonment

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nounLaw.
  1. the unlawful restraint of a person from exercising the right to freedom of movement.

Origin of false imprisonment

1
First recorded in 1760–70

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How to use false imprisonment in a sentence

  • They were all charged with variations of sexual assault and false imprisonment.

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  • The law punishes false imprisonment as a crime; the person unlawfully imprisoned also has a civil action for damages.

  • He also began actions for false imprisonment against the two secretaries of state.

  • A test suit is pending against Judge Cornell for false imprisonment, brought by one of the shirt-waist strikers.

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  • We desired him, then, that he would do us justice for our false imprisonment which we had suffered nine weeks wrongfully.

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  • The law punishes false imprisonment as a crime, besides giving reparation to the party injured, through an action of trespass.

British Dictionary definitions for false imprisonment

false imprisonment

noun
  1. law the restraint of a person's liberty without lawful authority

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