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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879

Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence

The wo Ms "constraint " and " restraint " are so nearly alike in meaning, that to use restraint instead of constraint in a certificate of a wife's acknowledgment does not vitiate. Edmondson r.

Harris, 2 Term. Ch. 427.

The terms " restraint " and " detention of princes," as used in policies of marine insurance, have the same meaning, — that of the effect of superior force, operating directly on the vessel. So long as a ship is under restraint, so long she is detained; and whenever she is detained, she is under restraint.

Richardson v. Maine Ins. Co., 6 Mass. 102.