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Captive animal

(not being a domestic animal) which is in captivity or confinement, whether permanent or temporary, or which is subjected to any

Bail [fr. bailler, Fr., to hand over], to set at liberty a person arrested or imprisoned, on security being taken...

seizure : the act, fact, or process of seizing: as a : the seizing of property that involves meaningful interference...

booking : a procedure at a jail or police station following an arrest in which information about the arrest (as...

Obligation, an act which binds a person to some performance; also a bond containing a penalty, with a condition annexed...

writ of habeas corpus in liberating the subject from illegal confinement in a public prison, it also extends its influence to

Intoxicating liquor, the word 'intoxicating liquor' is not confined to potable liquor alone but would include all liquor which

valuable right to defend the suit and his remedy is confined only to contest the plaintiff's case on his own evidence

of Enrolments (27 Hen. 8, c. 16) seemed to be confined to cases where an estate of inheritance or freehold, or

Letter of licence, an instrument in writing whereby the creditors of a man who had failed to meet his engagements...