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arrest

arrest [Middle French arest, from arester to stop, seize, arrest, ultimately from Latin ad to, at + restare to stay]...

Arrest [fr. restae, Lat.; arrestare, It.; arrester, Fr., to bring one to stand], the restraining of the liberty of a...

Arrest of judgment, Formerly an unsuccessful defendant might move that the judgment for the plaintiff be arrested or withheld, notwithstanding...

Solitary confinement. The Criminal Law Consolida-tion Acts of 1861 each frequently provide

Such prisoner shall be confined in a cell apart prisoners, the expression 'such prisoner shall

confinement 1 : the act of confining 2 : the state

pretextual arrest : pretext arrest at arrest

Arrest of ship. The arrest of a ship is the method employed for enforcing an Admiralty process in rem. The...

Wrongful confinement, wrongful confinement is a wrongful restraint in such a manner

Confinement solitary. See SOLITARY CONFINE-MENT.