Imprisonment

— The act of putting or confining a man in prison; the restraint of a man’s personal liberty; coercion exercised upon a person to prevent the free exercise of his powers of locomotion, It is not a necessary part of the definition that the confinement should be in a place usually appropriated to that purpose; it may be in a locality used only for the specific occasion;

— or it may take place without the actual application of any physical agencies of restraint, (such as locks or bara,) but by verbal compulsion and the display of available force.

See 9 N, H. 491.

Any forcible detention of a man’s person, or contro! over his movements, is imprisonment.

8 Har. (Del.) 416.