False imprisonment consists in the unlawful detention of the person of another for any length of time whereby he is deprived of his personal liberty.
Ala. Code § 6-5-170
Definition.
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case 50 F. Supp. 2d 1176 - Hardy v. Town of Hayneville (1999)
Most recently applied in Angela McCullough v. The City of Montgomery, Alabama (July 2024)
(Code 1907, §4238; Code 1923, §7967; Code 1940, T. 7, §962.)
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.