Wrongful confinement
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Summary
Keeping a person within fixed limits so they cannot go beyond those limits is wrongful confinement. It applies when someone is physically or effectively prevented from leaving a place by locks, barriers, guards, threats, or similar restraints. The consequence is that the restrainer is said to have wrongfully confined the person.
Example
Rohan goes into a shop storeroom and the shopkeeper locks the door so Rohan cannot leave the building. Because Rohan is prevented from going beyond the room's limits, the shopkeeper has wrongfully confined him.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever wrongfully restrains any person in such a manner as to prevent that person from proceeding beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said “wrongfully to confine” that person.
Illustrations
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(a) A causes Z to go within a walled space, and locks Z. Z is thus prevented from proceeding in any direction beyond the circumscribing line of wall. A wrongfully confines z.
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(b) A places men with firearms at the outlets of a building, and tells Z that they will fire at Z if Z attempts leave the building. A wrongfully confines Z.
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