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False arrest is a common law tort, where a plaintiff alleges he or she was held in custody without probable cause, or without an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction. Although it is possible to sue law enforcement officials for false arrest, the usual defendants in such cases are private security firms.
Usage examples of "false arrest".
I wish to enter a charge against him of false arrest and malicious prosecution.
In a wondrous exasperation then, I declared to Max that not only his Certification but his whole view of things was false and flunking, the effect I could only hope of his age, and the shock of false arrest, and Stoker's perverse influence.
Townsend would not see me, I would bring suit against both of them for false arrest and slander.
If you charge her, of course you take all the responsibility for the act, and if you fail to convict her you will be liable to an action for false arrest.
Now he's got it in his head that Jackson can somehow claim false arrest and use it in his suit against the department.
He knows they wouldn't book me, or if they did I read about a man once that collected enough to retire on for false arrest.
In a hundred times a hundred others, it has preserved an innocent person from unjust accusation, false arrest, wrongful trial, and maybe even capital punishment, which cannot be undone once it has taken place.
I had been named in a civil suit for 'false arrest' and 'defamation of the character of Colonel Geoffrey Shafer'.