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Definition of Detainer
1. n. One who detains.
Definition of Detainer
1. Noun. (legal) The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will. A type of custody. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detainer
1. the unlawful withholding of another's property [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detainer
Literary usage of Detainer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"On the trial of any proceeding for any forcible entry or forcible detainer, the
plaintiff shall only be required to show, in addition to a forcible entry ..."
2. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"It was sworn that the sum, for which such detainer was lodged, charge a de was
c'lle a' l'ie '"шо of the first arrest; from which it was contended, ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"A justice of the peace has no jurisdiction in an action of forcible entry and
detainer. The Code of Oklahoma territory prior to its adoption from the state ..."
4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"'Unlawful detainer' is a remedy provided by statute for the benefit of landlords
against ... But a 'forcible entry and detainer' is a tort pure and simple. ..."
5. A Treatise on the American Law of Landlord and Tenant by John Neilson Taylor (1887)
"Forcible Entry and detainer distinguished from Summary Process. — And with respect
to the summary proceedings by which a tenant may be removed from the ..."
6. A Treatise on the Action of Ejectment and Concurrent Remedies for the by Martin L. Newell (1892)
"The action of forcible entry anil detainer can not lie maintained ... Held, that
the question of the forcible detainer of both blocks was for the jury, ..."
7. The Massachusetts Law of Landlord and Tenant: Including the Cases in Vol by Prescott Farnsworth Hall (1922)
"Definition of forcible detainer.—In general, the same circumstances of violence
or terror, which will make an entry forcible, will make a detainer forcible ..."
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