Impound

Defined in 8 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891), Anderson (1889), Stimson (1881)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

To place in a pound goods or cattle distrained or estray. 3 Bl. Comm. 12.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

To keep in the custody of the law; to place in a pound. See Pound.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

To place in a pound goods or cattle distrained or astray. 3 Bla. Com, 12; Newhouse v. Hatch, 126 Mass. 364. See Animal. Also, to retain in the custody of the law. A suspicious instrument produced at a trial is said to be impounded, when it is ordered by the court to be retained, in case criminal proceedings should be taken.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

To shut up stray animals or distrained goods in a pound. Thomas v. Harries, 1 Man. & G. 703; Goodsell v. Dunning, 34 Conn. 257; Howard v. Bartlett, 70 Vt. 314, 40 Atl. 825. To take into the custody of the law or of a court. Thus, a court will sometimes impound a suspicious document produced at a trial.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

To put in a a forged document

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

To shut up stray animals or distrained goods in a pound. To take into the custody of the law or of a court, Thus, a court will sometimes énpound & suspicious document produced at a trial.

A Dictionary of Law

William C. Anderson · 1889

See Pound, 2.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

1. To put in a pound. the law; as of a forged or suspicious