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prison
under state control for confinement of persons serving sentences for serious crimes compare house of correction, house of detention, jail, lockup, penitentiary
Mentally ill prisoner
Mentally ill prisoner, means a mentally ill person for whose detention in, or removal to, a psychiatric hospital, psychiatric nursing home, jail or other place of safe custody, an
jail
the confinement of persons awaiting trial or those convicted of minor crimes compare house of correction, house of detention, lockup, penitentiary, prison jail vt
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possession
and control over a controlled substance or other contraband d in the civil law of Louisiana : the detention or enjoyment of a corporeal thing e : control or occupancy of property actual possession 1 : direct
Middlesex, Bill of
civil action other than actions real, provided the defendant was an officer of the Court, or in the custody of the marshal, or prison-keeper of the Court. in proceedings against prisoners or officers of the Court, the
Husband and wife
Coleridge, J., in Ex parte Cochrane (1840) 8 Dowl. 630) considered to have a right to the personal custody of his wife; but in 1891 the Court of Appeal (Lords Halsbury and Esher and Sir Edward Fry)
tribal court
administered through self-government of an American Indian tribe esp. on a reservation and having federally prescribed jurisdiction over custody and adoption cases involving tribal children, criminal jurisdiction over offenses committed on tribal lands by members of the
House of correction
place of trial, it is enacted that a justice of the peace, or coroner, may commit for safe custody to any house of correction situate near the place where the assizes or sessions are to be held;
Detainer
before they are impounded he tenders me sufficient amends; now, though the original taking was lawful, my subsequent detention of them, after tender of amends, is not lawful, and he shall have an action of replevin against
release
also release of all claims compare hold harmless 3 : the act or instance of freeing esp. from custody
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