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Of false Imprisonment.
VIolence indeede, is false imprison∣ment, or bodily hurt.
False imprisonment is an vn∣lawfull restraint of libertie. As (a) 1.1 arresting one against his will, though it be in the High-streete, and he ne∣uer put in prison in any house; detaining of a woman (b) 1.2 against her wil, whom he hath
rauished. So if a (c) 1.3 master imprison one without cause, and deliuer the key of the dore to a seruant that hath notice of his wrongfull imprisonment of him, if the ser∣uant deliuer him not, he shall bee punished in an Action of false imprisonment. But if the imprisonment be vpō a false & feined suite, as in suing (d) 1.4 execution vpon a sta∣tute marchant, when the monie is paid, yet no Action of false imprisonment lieth, for he is imprisoned by course of Law.
22. ass. pl. 85.
43. E. 3. 20.
22. E. 4. 45.
43. E. 3. 33.