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Definition of Taking into custody
1. Noun. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal). "The policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
Generic synonyms: Capture, Gaining Control, Seizure
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Arrest, Catch, Collar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Taking Into Custody
Literary usage of Taking into custody
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1911)
"To this bill the appellee (the defendant in the Circuit Court) demurred, assigning,
for causes of demurrer, that if the taking into custody of the body of ..."
2. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"In all of these cases, it was held, that, to infer an effectual imprisonment, in
the sense of the statute, it is essential that the taking into custody ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"To this bill the appellee (the defendant in the Circuit Court) demurred, assigning,
for causes of demurrer, that if the taking into custody of the body of ..."
4. Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States: With Notes by Benjamin Robbins Curtis, United States Supreme Court, Richard Peters, Henry Wheaton, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, Benjamin C Howard (1870)
"To this bill the appellee, (the defendant in the circuit court,) demurred,
assigning, for causes of demurrer, that if the taking into custody of the body of ..."
5. A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor by Michael Nolan (1825)
"... prehending or taking into custody any person or persons Bounty, and offending
against law, and whom they lawfully may and resident in the ought to ..."
6. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1913)
"portation, although each of those sections begins by providing for the taking
into custody of aliens subject to removal within three years from entry. ..."
7. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer by Richard Burn (1820)
"... or any peace officer or other person acting in their aid or assistance, in
the arresting, apprehending, or taking into custody, or detaining, ..."
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