IMPROPRIATION
Definition (1910 Edition)
occasion; or it may take place without the actual application of any physical agencies of restraint, (such as locks or bars,) but by verbal compulsion and the display of available force. See Pike v. Hanson, 9 N. H. 491.
Source: Black's Law Dictionary, 2nd Edition (1910) — Public Domain.
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