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Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.

Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

Replevin :: Replevin (n.) A personal action which lies to recover possession of goods and chattle wrongfully taken or detained. Originally, it was a remedy peculiar to cases for wrongful distress, but it may generally now be brought in all cases of wrongful taking or detention..

Intransitive :: Intransitive (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained.

Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..

Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A person or thing detaine.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..

Detained :: Detained (imp. & p. p.) of Detai.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.

Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To hinde/; to delay; to detain; to keep back.

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

Sundial :: Sundew (n.) Any plant of the genus Drosera, low bog plants whose leaves are beset with pediceled glands which secrete a viscid fluid that glitters like dewdrops and attracts and detains insects. After an insect is caught, the glands curve inward like tentacles and the leaf digests it. Called also lustwort..

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law..

Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) One who detains.

Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

Disherit :: Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance..

Fugitive :: Fugitive (n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.

Embargo :: Embargo (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods..

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