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The act of detaining or the state of being detained.

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A temporary state of custody or confinement, especially of a prisoner awaiting trial, or of a student being punished.

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The bare physical control without the mental element of intention required for possession.

In 1901 Bellary was chosen as one of the places of detention in India for Boer prisoners of war.

The queen had visited it more than once before her detention, and had had a presence chamber built in it.

Caesarea, indeed, as a city of mixed population and lying just outside Judaea proper - a place, moreover, where Timothy might have become known during Paul's two years' detention there - would satisfy many conditions of the problem.

Such schools are for children up to the age of fourteen, and the limit of detention is sixteen.

The interest of the place centres in its abbey, which since 1804 has been utilized and abused as a central house of detention for convicts.

He was tried and allowed to go at liberty after some detention in prison.

Although the detention of a crusader was contrary to public law, Richard was compelled to purchase his release by the payment of a heavy ransom and by doing homage to the emperor for England.

A little more than twelve months later, a coup d'etat placed the tsesarevna Elizabeth on the throne (December 6, 1741), and Ivan and his family were imprisoned in the fortress of Diinamtinde (Ust Dvinsk) (December 1 3, 1742) after a preliminary detention a Riga, from whence the new empress had at first decided to send them home to Brunswick.

His wild extravagance, however, forced his father to forestall his creditors by securing his detention in semi-exile in the country, where he wrote his earliest extant work, the Essai sur le despotisme.

There were many causes of quarrel between the two ambitious young monarchs, but the detention at Copenhagen in 1563 of a splendid matrimonial embassy on its way to Germany, to negotiate a match between Eric and Christina of Hesse, which King Frederick for political reasons was determined to prevent, precipitated hostilities.

The lords opposed to Somerset ordered his detention on the 10th of October, and in November he was in the Tower.

These murders were committed so promptly and secretly that it is doubtful whether the estates, actually in session at the same place, knew what had been done when, on the 26th of May, under violent pressure from Goran Persson, they signed a document declaring that all the accused gentlemen under detention had acted like traitors, and confirming all sentences already passed or that might be passed upon them.

At this time prisons were primarily places of detention, not of punishment, peopled by accused persons, still innocent in the eyes of the law, and debtors guilty only of breaches of the financial rules of a commercial country, framed chiefly in the interest of the creditor.

After this it became a regular place of detention for important state prisoners, such as Syphax of Numidia, Perseus of Macedonia, Bituitus, king of the Arverni.

A little later he sent a protest to England against the commercial blockade and the detention of cargoes bound for neutral ports.

In connexion with the juvenile court detention homes have been established, and in certain conditions justices of the peace are empowered to act as judges of the juvenile court in their respective precincts.

A prison erected here at this period gave place later to the House of Detention, notorious as the scene of a Fenian outrage in 1867, when it was sought to release certain prisoners by blowing up part of the building.

It was now proposed to do the same thing for the whole of Ireland, the power of detention to continue until the 30th of September 1882.

He was condemned to detention for life in a fortress, his friend Aladenize being deported, and Montholon, Parquin, Lombard and Fialin being each condemned to detention for twenty years.

The rupture, therefore, took place in the middle of May; and on a flimsy pretext the First Consul ordered the detention in France of all English persons.

After a short detention in a police cell, an offender, unless disposed of summarily, passes into one of His Majesty's prisons, there to await his trial at sessions or assizes.

It is only a short time since the local gaol in the city of New York, "the Tombs," a house of detention for prisoners awaiting trial, was described in an official report to the state legislature as "a disgraces.

He was bold enough to speak and vote for the "detention of Louis during the war and his perpetual banishment afterwards," and he pointed out that the execution of the king would alienate American sympathy.

When a ship shall have entered or shall have been detained in any port or place under the circumstances, or for the purposes of the repairs, mentioned in Rule X., the wages payable to the master, officers and crew, together with the cost of maintenance of the same, during the extra period of detention in such port or place until the ship shall or should have been made ready to proceed upon her voyage, shall be admitted as G.A.

Where the detention is to repair accidental damage it seems clear that they are not allowed.

Philip was sentenced to detention for fifteen years, and as he was heartily disliked by Charles his imprisonment was a rigorous one, and became still more so after he had made an attempt to escape.

As early as 1657 criminals were banished to the island by the Dutch authorities at Cape Town; it has also served as the place of detention of several noted Kaffir chiefs.

It is available to put an end to all forms of illegal detention in public or private custody.

But after his recantation his detention was made less severe and he was allowed many alleviations.

In April 1906 it was chosen as the place of detention of Behanzin, the ex-king of Dahomey, who died in December of that year.

Many of the works relating to Napoleon's detention at St Helena are perversions of the truth, e.g.

In the spring of 1583 she retained enough of this saintly resignation to ask for nothing but liberty, without a share in the government of Scotland; but Lord Burghley not unreasonably preferred, if feasible, to reconcile the alliance of her son with the detention of his mother.

A few days afterwards the insurrection which established the Commune broke out, and Blanqui `.was elected a member of the insurgent government, but his detention in prison prevented him from taking an active part.

The first is a new method for educating and reforming young offenders, already on the frontiers of habitual crime, no longer children, but at an age still susceptible of permanent improvement; the second is the legal acceptance of the principle of indefinite detention, the willingness to inflict an indeterminate sentence on those who have already forfeited the right to be at large.

In 1701 William Dampier was wrecked on its coast, and during his detention discovered the only spring of fresh water the island contains.

Please don't be remiss in doing your homework, or else you will get detention!

You must conform to the school's rules, or else you will get detention.

Released in 1985, The Breakfast Club tells the story of a group of high school students forced to spend Saturday detention together.

By the end of detention, the group had discovered just how many similarities they shared and came away with newfound respect for each other.

There are a score of cases of serious imprisonment, and a countless number of arrests and temporary detention.

While thus occupied he was arrested by the municipality of Sedan; he was set free after a few days' detention.

The chief prisons are at Louvain, Ghent and St Gilles (Brussels), and the last named serves as a house of detention.

On the 23rd of July the same evidence was laid before the law officers, who advised that there was sufficient ground for detention.

A sentence of detention for a term not exceeding six months passed under either of those provisions.

No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

There have been numerous suicide attempts in the detention camp.

As for the question of secret C.I.A. detention centers in Europe, the new report offered no hard evidence.

Detention and rapid decision making would facilitate a major effort on removal which would be an essential concomitant.

The Mental Health Act allows the detention of people in hospital under certain conditions.

Thus, the present system remains intact and there is unlikely to be a flood of claims for wrongful conviction or unlawful detention.