Detainer
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
A withholding; detention.
See Detinere, 1.
Restraint of the person, unassented to.
See Imprisonment.
3.
Withholding possession of property from the rightful owner.
See Conversion, 3.
Forcible detainer
Keeping possession of another's realty by force and without authority of law.
Vandyck v. Van Beuren, 1 Caines, *84 (1803).
The original entry may have been peaceable. Where one, who has entered peaceably upon land, afterward retains possession by force. Forcible entry and detainer.
See Entry, 1.