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detention

detention 1 : the act or fact of detaining or holding back ;esp : a holding in custody 2

Detention

Detention, Detention in the context must mean keeping back a wife from her husband or any other person having

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Detainment

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detente

the easing of tensions or strained relations especially between nations as by agreement negotiation or tacit understandings

Detention

The act of detaining or keeping back a withholding

arrest

for a breach of the peace committed in his or her presence. civil arrest : the arrest and detention of a defendant in a civil suit until he or she posts bail or pays the judgment see

Arrest

Arrest [fr. restae, Lat.; arrestare, It.; arrester, Fr., to bring one to stand], the restraining of the liberty of a man's person in order to compel obedience to the order of a Court of Justice, or...

Such detention

Such detention, refers to preventive detention and not to any period for which such detention is to continue because the

Preventive detention and punitive detention

Preventive detention and punitive detention, there is a vital distinction between these two kinds of detention. 'Punitive detention' is intended

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