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Confinement, means labour resulting in the issue of a living child, or labour after twenty-six weeks of pregnancy resulting in the issue of a child whether alive or dead. [Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 (34 of 1948), s. 2(3)]

The act of imprisoning or restraining someone; the state of being imprisoned or restrained, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.