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To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound hence to hold in the custody of some authority such as police or a court as to impound stray cattle to impound an illegally parked car to impound a document for safe keeping...
Impound
Impound, to place a suspected document in the custody of the law, when it is produced at a trial. As to custody of documents impounded by the Court, see R.S.C. Ord. XLII., r. 334.Means (1) To place (something such as a car or other personal property) in the custody of the police or the court, often with the understanding that it will be retuned intact at the end of the proceeding.(2) To take and retain possession of (something, such as a forged document to be produced as evidence) in preparation for a criminal prosecution, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 760....
Impounding distress
Impounding distress. Placing cattle, etc., after they have been detrained, in a pound (see that title) or other safe place for custody, which safe place may, by virtue of the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737 (11 Geo. 2, c. 19), s. 10, in the case of distress upon a tenant for rent, be on the demised premises themselves. The (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27), obliges the person impounding any animal to provide it with sufficient and wholesome food and water....
impound
impound : to take control of in the custody of the law or by legal authority [ a vehicle] [the police ed the dwelling until the search warrant was obtained] im·pound·ment n ...
Impounder
One who impounds...
Pound
Pound [fr. pund, Sax.; pondo, Lat.], a certain weight, consisting in troy weight of 12, in avoirdupois of 16 ounces; the sum of 20s, said to be so called because in Saxon times 240 pence weighed a pound. See Lambard, 219. A pound Scots, anglice, a shilling.A penfold, an inclosure, a prison in which beasts seized for rent (see DISTRESS) or caught on the land of another (see DAMAGE FEASANT) may be kept until they are replevied or redeemed. It is either overt, i.e., open overhead; or covert, i.e., in a close. See 1 & 2 P. & M. c. 12, whereby no distress of cattle may be driven more than three miles from where it was taken, and not more than 4d. may be taken for any one whole distress impounded; the (English) Distress for Rent Act, 1737, s. 10, empowering any person lawfully distraining for rent to impound the distress on the premises chargeable with the rent.By s. 7 of the (English) Protection of Animals Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 27) penalties are imposed for impounding or confining any...
Impoundage
The act of impounding or the state of being impounded...
Damage feasant or faisant
Damage feasant or faisant (doing damage). If a stranger's beasts (including domestic fowls) are found on another person's land without his leave or license, and without the fault of the possessor of the close (which may happen from his not repairing his fences), and there doing damage by feeding, or otherwise, to the grass, corn, wood, etc., the person damaged may distrain and impound them, as well by night as in the day, lest the beasts escape before taken; but they cannot be sold for the damage done; nor is there any privilege from the distress. The distress may be made of things inanimate, see Ambergate, etc., Ry. Co. v. Midland Ry. Co., (1853) 23 LJ QB 17, where a locomotive engine was distrained damage feasant. By the (English) Pound-Breach Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 30), any person releasing, or attempting to release, cattle lawfully seized by way of such distress from the pound is, on conviction before two justices of the peace, liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l.; and by the (...
Rescue
Rescue, the taking away and setting at liberty, against law, a distress taken, or a person arrested by the process or course of law (Co. Litt. 160 b). Rescue of persons the custody of the law has been dealt with in by a number of Statutes from 23 Edw. 1. Aiding a prisoner to escape is a felony by the Prison Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 126), s. 37. See Archbold's Criminal Pleading, Ev. And Practice, 25th Edn. pp. 1112-1123. Rescue of children from approved schools (late reformatory or industrial), see Children and Young Persons Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 12); rescues from prisons abroad, see 22 Vict. c. 25; of persons of unsound mind, see Lunacy Act, 1890.The act or an instance of saving or freeing someone from danger or captivity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1308.Rescue lies where a person distrains for rent or services, or for damage feasant, and is desirous of impounding the distress, and another person rescues the distress from him. The party distraining must be in posse...
search
search 1 : an exploratory investigation (as of an area or person) by a government agent that intrudes on an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy and is conducted usually for the purpose of finding evidence of unlawful activity or guilt or to locate a person [warrantless es are invalid unless they fall within narrowly drawn exceptions "State v. Mahone, 701 P.2d 171 (1985)"] see also exigent circumstances, plain view probable cause at cause, reasonable suspicion search warrant at warrant compare seizure NOTE: The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable searches and requires that a warrant may issue only upon probable cause and that the warrant must particularly describe the place to be searched. Some searches, such as a search incident to an arrest, have been held to be valid without a warrant. administrative search : an inspection or search carried out under a regulatory or statutory scheme esp. in public or commercial premises and usually to enf...
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