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Wilfully detains or delays

Wilfully detains or delays, it is, reasonable to think that in s. 53 when the word 'wilfully' was used, the

forcible entry and detainer

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Detinuit

Detinuit (he detained).

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Detinet

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

Retenementum

Retenementum, detaining, withholding, or keeping back.

Demurrage

used in commercial navigation, signifying on allowance made to the owners of a ship by the freighter, for detaining her in port longer than the period agreed upon for her sailing. It is usually stipulated in charter-parties

Abduction

away of a woman. It is felony:- (a) Where any person from motives of lucre takes away or detains any woman who has any interest in any property (even a presumptive expectation) with intent to marry or

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

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

English law, is a remedy for a person deprived of his liberty. It is addressed to him who detains another in custody, and commands him to produce the body, with the day and cause of his caption

Fresh fact

it does not refer to facts which are not relevant, but to such fresh facts on which the detaining authority is satisfied that an order of detention should be made. If the fresh facts cannot form the

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