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detainer
Word definitions for detainer in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Detainer (from detain, Latin detinere); originally in British law , the act of keeping a person against his will, or the wrongful keeping of a person's goods, or other real or personal property . A writ of detainer was a form for the beginning of a personal ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who detains," 1530s, agent noun from detain . As a legal term, "a detaining in one's possession," from 1610s, from Anglo-French detener , from Old French detenir (noun use of infinitive).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will. A type of custody.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Detainer \De*tain"er\ (-[~e]r), n. One who detains. (Law) 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. A writ ...
Usage examples of detainer.
Technically, a parole detainer is enough to hold a parolee for up to sixty days pending a hearing.
In this and the earlier instances of loss by theft, the action was detinue, counting, we may presume, simply on a delivery and wrongful detainer.
One of the really great detainers and keepers-in of our time, Old Hector.
At length, after temporarily felling one of his detainers with a sudden blow, he had flung himself upon the other in a demoniac ecstasy of blood-thirstiness, shrieking fiendishly that he would "jump high in the air and burn his way through anything that stopped him.