Detentio
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat.
In old English law
Detention or detainment, as distinguished from, or in connexion with captio, (taking.) Brctct, fol.
156 b.
Detentor; a detainer. Id. ibid. In the civil law. That condition of fact imder which one can exercise his power over a corporeal thing at his pleasure, to the exclusion of all others.
1 Mackeld, Civ. Law, 236, § 229.
It forms the substance of possession in all its varieties. Id. ibid.