Incarceration

Imprisonment; confinement in a jail or penitentiary. This term is seldom used in law, though found occasionally in statutes, (Rev. St. Okl. 1903, § 2068.) When so used, it appears always to mean confinement by competent public authority or under due legal process, whereas "imprisonment" may be effected by a private person without warrant of law, and lf unjustifiable is called "false imprisonment" No occurrence of such a phrase as "false incarceration" has been noted.

See Imprisonment.