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IMPROVIDENTLY

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

A judgment, decree, rule, injunction, etc., when given or rendered without adequate consideration by the court, or without proper information as to all the circumstances affecting it, or based upon a mistaken assumption or misleading information or advice, is sometimes said to have been "improvidently" given or issued. … [Read more...]

IN ACTION

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Attainable or recoverable by action; not in possession. A term applied to property of which a party has not the possession, but only a right to recover it by action. Things in action are rights of personal things, which nevertheless are not in possession. See CHOSE IN ACTION. … [Read more...]

IMPRISON

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To confine a person for the commission of a crime, usually in a prison. It also refers to holding a person against their will, lawfully or unlawfully. To put in a prison; to put in a place of confinemen. To confine a person, or restrain his liberty, in any way. … [Read more...]

IMPRISONMENT

TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.

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 … [Read more...]

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