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Imprison ment

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Im`pris´on ment
n.1.The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint.
His sinews waxen weak and raw
Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.
- Spenser.
Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by foreibly detaining one in the public streets.
- Blackstone.
False imprisonment
(Law) See under False.
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Peter Stuart Willden, aged 27, of Stoke Lodge, Stoke Green, Coventry, three charges of failing to comply with the requirements of a community punishment order, 12 weeks' imprison ment.
Court In Brief by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
Duncan McMinn, aged 37, of no fixed address, theft to the value of pounds 200 and breach of a suspended sentence, four months' imprison ment.
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