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Forcible detainer

Forcible detainer, refusing to restore another's goods, after sufficient amends tendered, the original taking having been lawful; for which injury

forcible entry and detainer

forcible entry and detainer 1 : the forcible entry upon and keeping of real property without authority of law 2 : the

Detinuit

Detinuit (he detained).

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Retenementum

Retenementum, detaining, withholding, or keeping back.

Detinet

Detinet (he detains), an action of debt, which lay for the specific recovery of goods, under a contract to deliver them,

Replevin

Conveyancer 105, 3rd Edn., 1833. Replevin, lies, where specific personal property has been wrongfully taken and is wrongfully detained, to recover possession of the property together with damages for its detention. To support the action it is

Demurrage

as an express stipulation on the part of the freighter that the vessel shall in no event be detained longer; if detained the charterer, is liable for damages for breach of contract for which the rate of

Double value

so kept out of possession at the rate of double the yearly value of the lands, etc., so detained, for so long a time as the same are detained. As to the effect of the (English) Rent

Appropriate government

of 1952), s. 2(a)] Means, as respects a detention order made by the Central Government or a person detained under such order, the Central Government, and as respects a detention order made by a State Government or

Drunkenness

upon conviction on indictment, or if he consents to be dealt with summarily on summary conviction, to be detained for a term not exceeding three years in any certified inebriate reformatory the managers of which are willing

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