Detainer

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Meaning of Detainer

warrant filed against a person already in custody for purpose of insuring that the prisoner will be available to the authority having lodged the detainer at the completion of the individual’s term of incarceration. Hystad v Rhay, 533 P.2d 409, 12 Wash. A pp. 872.

Detainer Alternative Definition

Detention; the act of keeping a person against his will, or of withholding the possession of goods or other personal or real property from the owner. “Detainer” and “detention” are pretty much synonymous. If there be any distinction, it is perhaps that detention applies rather to the act considered as a fact; detainer to the act considered as something done by some person. Detainer is more frequently used with reference to real estate than in application to personal property. In Practice. A writ or instrument, issued or made by a competent officer, authorizing the keeper of a prison to keep in his custody a person therein named. A detainer may be lodged against one within the walls of a prison, on what account soever he is there. Comyn, Dig. “Process” (E) (3 B).

Synonyms of Detainer

noun

  • detainment
  • illegal custody
  • illegal detention
  • illegal restraint
  • illegal withholding
  • unlawful detention
  • unlawful restriction
  • unlawful retention
  • wrongful impoundment
  • wrongful keeping

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Grammar

This term is a noun.

Etimology of Detainer

(You may find detainer at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).

one who detains, 1530s, agent noun from detain. As a legal term, “a detaining in one’s possession,” from 1610s, from Anglo-French detener, from Old French detenir (noun use of infinitive).

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