False Imprisonment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Any unlawful restraint of a man's liberty, whether in a place made use of for imprisonment generally, or in one used only on the particular occasion, or by words and an array of force, without bolts or bars, in any locality whatever.
2 Bish. Crim. Law, § 669; 8 N. H. 550; 9 N. H. 491; 7 Humph. (Tenn.) 43; 12 Ark. 43; 7 Q. B. 742; 6 Vt. 588; 3 Blackf. (Ind.) 46; 9 Johns. (N. Y.) 117; 1 A. K. Marsh. (Ky.) 345.
The characteristic of false imprisonment is the unlawfulness of the detention. If the sued, it is not false imprisonment.
58 Wis. 276; 17 Kan. 436.
FALSE JUDGMENT (havf "Lai. faleum judicium; breve de falso judicio).
In English law
A writ which lies to the courts at Westminster to reverse the judgment of some inferior court not of record., 3 Bl. Comm. 34, 406; Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 18; Finch, Law, bk.
4, c. 47.