The act of putting or confining a man in prison; the restraint of a man’s personal liberty; coercion exer-cised upon a person to prevent the free exer-clse of his powers of locomotion. State v. Shaw, 73 Vt 149, 50 Atl. 863; In re Langs-low, 167 N. Y. 314, 60 N. E. 590; In re Langan (C. C.) 123 Fed. 134; Steere v. Field, 22 Fed. Cas. 1221
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
