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Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The forcible liberation of a person from an arrest or imprisonment.

#NAME? :: -ment () A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment..

Incarceration :: Incarceration (n.) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment..

Confinement :: Confinement (n.) Restraint within limits; imprisonment; any restraint of liberty; seclusion.

Liberty :: Liberty (n.) Freedom from imprisonment, bonds, or other restraint upon locomotion..

Cession :: Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.

Wrongous :: Wrongous (a.) Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment..

Durance :: Durance (n.) Imprisonment; restraint of the person; custody by a jailer; duress. Shak.

Illegality :: Illegality (n.) The quality or condition of being illegal; unlawfulness; as, the illegality of trespass or of false imprisonment; also, an illegal act..

Duress :: Duress (n.) Hardship; constraint; pressure; imprisonment; restraint of liberty.

Bond :: Bond (n.) The state of being bound; imprisonment; captivity, restraint..

Commutation :: Commutation (n.) The change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence of death to banishment or imprisonment..

Reimprisonment :: Reimprisonment (n.) The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned..

Bail :: Bail (n.) The person or persons who procure the release of a prisoner from the custody of the officer, or from imprisonment, by becoming surely for his appearance in court..

Prisonment :: Prisonment (n.) Imprisonment.

Commute :: Commute (v. t.) To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares..

Habeas Corpus :: Habeas corpus () A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial..

Felony :: Felony (n.) A heinous crime; especially, a crime punishable by death or imprisonment..

Oubliette :: Oubliette (n.) A dungeon with an opening only at the top, found in some old castles and other strongholds, into which persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment, or to perish secretly, were thrust, or lured to fall..

Gaol :: Gaol (n.) A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail..

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