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Replevy :: Replevy (v. t.) To take or get back, by a writ for that purpose (goods and chattels wrongfully taken or detained), upon giving security to try the right to them in a suit at law, and, if that should be determined against the plaintiff, to return the property replevied..

Imprison :: Imprison (v. t.) To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.

Detaining :: Detaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Detai.

Detinue :: Detinue (n.) A form of action for the recovery of a personal chattel wrongfully detained.

Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..

Embargo :: Embargo (v. t.) To lay an embargo on and thus detain; to prohibit from leaving port; -- said of ships, also of commerce and goods..

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law..

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To hold or keep in custody.

Detention :: Detention (n.) The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.

Detained :: Detained (imp. & p. p.) of Detai.

Detain :: Detain (n.) Detention.

Overlinger :: Overlinger (v. t.) To cause to linger; to detain too long.

Fugitive :: Fugitive (n.) Something hard to be caught or detained.

Excuss :: Excuss (v. t.) To seize and detain by law, as goods..

Detainment :: Detainment (n.) Detention.

Intransitive :: Intransitive (a.) Not passing farther; kept; detained.

Disherit :: Disherit (v. t.) To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance..

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To keep back or from; to withhold.

Detain :: Detain (v. t.) To restrain from proceeding; to stay or stop; to delay; as, we were detained by an accident..

Detainer :: Detainer (n.) A writ authorizing the keeper of a prison to continue to keep a person in custody.

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