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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

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

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

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer..

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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