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false imprisonment
noun as in unjustifiable imprisonment
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Gómez and Barros have been charged with forced slavery, inflicting bodily harm on a child and false imprisonment.
They were all charged with variations of sexual assault and false imprisonment.
The law punishes false imprisonment as a crime; the person unlawfully imprisoned also has a civil action for damages.
He also began actions for false imprisonment against the two secretaries of state.
A test suit is pending against Judge Cornell for false imprisonment, brought by one of the shirt-waist strikers.
We desired him, then, that he would do us justice for our false imprisonment which we had suffered nine weeks wrongfully.
The law punishes false imprisonment as a crime, besides giving reparation to the party injured, through an action of trespass.
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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to false imprisonment, such as: illegal detention, and unlawful imprisonment.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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