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Detainer :: Detainer (n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

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..

Recaption :: Recaption (n.) The act of retaking, as of one who has escaped after arrest; reprisal; the retaking of one's own goods, chattels, wife, or children, without force or violence, from one who has taken them and who wrongfully detains them..

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

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

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

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

Excuss :: Excuss (v. t.) To seize and detain by law, as goods..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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

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