unlawful imprisonment
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Within months of the July policy announcement, more than 700 emergency habeas petitions – legal challenges to unlawful imprisonment – reached federal courts nationwide.
From Salon ● Dec. 12, 2025
Sheriff’s deputies arrested the driver, James Herbert Brick, 61, of Cherokee, N.C., and charged him with unlawful imprisonment.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2021
The charter, which King John was forced by his barons to sign, decreed that nobody should be denied the right to justice or subject to unlawful imprisonment, dispossession or exile.
From Reuters ● Aug. 29, 2019
The right to life is expressed in prohibitions on cruel and unusual punishment and unlawful imprisonment.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2016
The health of Eliot had sunk under an unlawful imprisonment of several years.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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