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

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

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

Detaining :: Detaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detai.

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

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

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

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

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

Keep :: Keep (v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain.

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

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..

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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

Overlinger :: Overlinger (v. t.) To cause to linger; to detain too long.

Detainder :: Detainder (n.) A writ. See Detinue.

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..

Delay :: Delay (n.) To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow..

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

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