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Keeping :: Keeping (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant..

Take :: Take (v. t.) To obtain possession of by force or artifice; to get the custody or control of; to reduce into subjection to one's power or will; to capture; to seize; to make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like..

Custody :: Custody (n.) A keeping or guarding; care, watch, inspection, for keeping, preservation, or security..

Jail :: "Jail (n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding..

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed..

Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of.

Exemplification :: Exemplification (n.) A copy or transcript attested to be correct by the seal of an officer having custody of the original.

Bail :: Bail (n.) Custody; keeping.

Bail :: Bail (n.) The security given for the appearance of a prisoner in order to obtain his release from custody of the officer; as, the man is out on bail; to go bail for any one..

Deposit :: Deposit (n.) To lodge in some one's hands for safe keeping; to commit to the custody of another; to intrust; esp., to place in a bank, as a sum of money subject to order..

Custody :: Custody (n.) State of being guarded and watched to prevent escape; restraint of liberty; confinement; imprisonment.

Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..

Return :: Return (v. t.) To convey into official custody, or to a general depository..

Retention :: Retention (n.) Place of custody or confinement.

Lend :: Lend (v. t.) To allow the custody and use of, on condition of the return of the same; to grant the temporary use of; as, to lend a book; -- opposed to borrow..

Enfranchisement :: Enfranchisement (n.) Releasing from slavery or custody.

Attachment :: Attachment (n.) A seizure or taking into custody by virtue of a legal process.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

Durance :: Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.

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