imprisonment 音标拼音: [ɪmpr'ɪzənmənt]
n . 监禁,下狱,坐牢
监禁,下狱,坐牢
imprisonment n 1 :
putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment 2 :
the state of being imprisoned ; "
he was held in captivity until he died "; "
the imprisonment of captured soldiers "; "
his ignominious incarceration in the local jail "; "
he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon " [
synonym :
{
captivity }, {
imprisonment }, {
incarceration }, {
immurement }]
3 :
the act of confining someone in a prison (
or as if in a prison ) [
synonym : {
imprisonment }, {
internment }]
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "
imprisonment ":
beleaguerment ,
besetment ,
blockade ,
blockading ,
captivity ,
circumscription ,
close arrest ,
confinement ,
cordoning ,
custody ,
detention ,
dismemberment ,
durance ,
durance vile ,
duress ,
enclosure ,
envelopment ,
estrapade ,
galleys ,
hard labor ,
house arrest ,
immuration ,
immurement ,
impalement ,
incarceration ,
inclusion ,
internment ,
jailing ,
keelhauling ,
martyrdom ,
penal servitude ,
picketing ,
quarantine ,
railriding ,
remand ,
rock pile ,
siege ,
strappado ,
tar -
and -
feathering ,
term of imprisonment ,
the gantlet ,
torment ,
torture IMPRISONMENT .
The restraint of a person contrary to his will .
2 Inst .
589 ;
Baldw .
Rep .
239 ,
600 .
Imprisonment is either lawful or unlawful ;
lawful imprisonment is used either for crimes or for the appearance of a party in a civil suit ,
or on arrest in execution .
2 .
Imprisonment for crimes is either for the appearance of a person accused ,
as when he cannot give bail ;
or it is the effect of a sentence ,
and then it is a part of the punishment .
3 .
Imprisonment in civil cases takes place when a defendant on being sued on bailable process refuses or cannot give the bail legally demanded ,
or is under a capias ad satisfaciendum ,
when he is taken in execution under a judgment .
An unlawful imprisonment ,
commonly called false imprisonment ,
(
q .
v .)
means any illegal imprisonment whatever ,
either with or without process ,
or under color of process wholly illegal ,
without regard to any question whether any crime has been committed or a debt due .
4 .
As to what will amount to an imprisonment ,
the most obvious modes are confinement in a prison or a private house ,
but a forcible detention in the street ,
or the touching of a person by a peace officer by way of arrest ,
are also imprisonments .
Bac .
Ab .
Trespass ,
D 3 ;
1 Esp .
R .
431 ,
526 .
It has been decided that lifting up a person in his chair ,
and carrying him out of the room in which he was sitting with others ,
and excluding him from the room ,
was not an imprisonment ;
1 Chit .
Pr .
48 ;
and the merely giving charge of a person to a peace officer ,
not followed by any actual apprehension of the person ,
does not amount to an imprisonment ,
though the party to avoid it ,
next day attend at a police ;
1 Esp .
R .
431 ;
New Rep .
211 ;
1 Carr . &
Payn .
153 ;
S .
C .
II Eng .
Com .
Law ,
R .
351 ;
and if ,
in consequence of a message from a sheriff '
s officer holding a writ ,
the defendant execute and send him a bail bond ,
such submission to the process will not constitute an arrest .
6 Barn . &
Cress .
528 ;
S .
C .
13 Eng .
Com .
Law Rep .
245 ;
Dowl . &
R .
233 .
Vide ,
generally ,
14 Vin .
Ab .
342 ;
4 Com .
Dig .
618 ;
1 Chit .
Pr .
47 ;
Merl .
Repert .
mot Emprisonment ;
17 Eng .
Com .
L .
R .
246 ,
n .
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