Imprisonment
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
The restraint of a man's liberty.
2 Bish. Grim. Law, § 669.
The restraint of a person contrary to his will.
2 Inst. 589; 1 Baldw. (U. S.) 239, 600.
Any forcible detention of a man's person, or control over his movements.
3 Harr. (Del.) 418.
Actual confinement is not essential, a forcible detention on the street being sufficient.
3 Bl. Comm. 127.
Nor is actual manual violence.
100 Mass. 79.
Words are sufficient to constitute an imprisonment, if they impose a restraint upon the person, and the plaintiff is accordingly restrained; for he is not obliged to incur the risk of personal violence and insult by resisting, until actual violence is used.
9 N. H. 493.