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Confinement

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

Co.nfinement may be by either a moral or a physical restraint, by threats of violence with a present force or by physical restraint of the person.

U. S. v. Thompson, 1 Sumn. 171, Fed. Cas. No. 16,492; Ex parte Snodgrass, 48 Tex. Cr. R. 359, 65 S. W. 1061.