KFLCC Kingdom Law 2nd Ed.

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IMPRESSION

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 avail able force. See Pike v. Hanson, 9 N. H. 491. Any forcible detention of a man's person, or control over his movements, is imprisonment. Lawspn v. Buzines, 3 Har. (Del.) 416. —False imprisonment. The unlawful ar rest or detention, of a person without warrant, or by an illegal warrant, or a warrant illegally executed, and either in a prison or a place used temporarily for that purpose, or by force and constraint without confinement. Brewster v. People, 183 111. 143, 55 N. E. 640; Miller v. Fano, 134 Cal. 103, 66 Pac. 183; Filer v. Smith, 96 Mich. 347, 55 N. W. 999, 35 Am. St. Rep. 603; Eberling v. State, 136 Ind. 117, 35 N. E. 1023. False imprisonment consists in the unlawful detention of the person of an other, for any length of time, whereby he is deprived of his personal liberty. Code Ga. 1882, § 2990; Pen. Code Cal. § 236. The term is also used as the name of the action, which lies for this species of injury. 3 Bl. Comm. 138. IMPRISTI. Adherents; followers. Those who side with or take the part of another, either in his defense or otherwise. In Scotch law. An action brought for the purpose of having some instrument declared false and forged. 1 Forb. Inst, pt 4, p. 161. The verb "im prove" (q. v.) was used in the same sense. Not suitable; unfit; not suited to the character, time, and place. Palmer v. Concord, 48 N. H. 211, 97 Am. Dec. 605. Wrongful. 53 Law J. P. D. 65. —Improper fends. These were derivative feuds; as, for instance, those that were orig inally bartered and sold to the feudatory for a price, or were held upon base or less hon orable services, or upon a rent in lieu of mili trary service, or were themselves alienable, without mutual license, or descended indiffer ently to males or females. Wharton.—Im proper influence. Undue influence, (q. v.) And see Millican v. Millican, 24 Tex. 446.— Improper navigation. Anything improper ly done with the ship or part of the ship in the course of the voyage. L. R. 6 C. P. 563. See, also, 53 Law J. P. D. 65. IMPROPRIATE RECTOR. In ecclesias tical law. Commonly signifies a lay rector as opposed to a spiritual rector; just as im propriate tithes are tithes in the hands of a lay owner, as opposed to appropriate tithes, which are tithes in the hands of a spiritual owner. Brown. In ecclesiastical law. The annexing an ecclesiastical bene fice to the use of a lay person, whether indi vidual or corporate, in the same way as ap propriation is the annexing of any such bene fice to the proper and perpetual use of some spiritual corporation, whether sole or aggre gate, to enjoy forever. Brown. IMPROBATION. IMPROPER. IMPROPRIATION.

the claims of another founded on prescrip tion. IMPRESSION. A "case of the first im pression" is one without a precedent; one presenting a wholly new state of facts; one Involving a question never before determined. IMPRESSMENT. A power possessed by the English crown of taking persons or prop erty to aid in the defense of the country, with or without the consent of the persons concerned. It is usually exercised to obtain hands for the royal ships in time of war, by taking seamen engaged in merchant ves sels, (1 Bl. Comm. 420; Maud & P. Shipp. 123;) but in former times impressment of merchant ships was also practiced. The ad miralty issues protections against Impress ment in certain cases, either under statutes passed in favor of certain callings (e. g., persons employed in the Greenland fisheries) or voluntarily. Sweet. IMPREST MONEY. Money paid on en listing or impressing soldiers or sailors. IMPRETIABILIS. Lat. Beyond price; Invaluable. IMPRIMATUR. Lat. Let it be printed. A license or allowance, granted by the con stituted authorities, giving permission to print and publish a book. This allowance was formerly necessary, in England, before any book could lawfully be printed, and in sonfe other countries is still required. IMPRIMERY. In some of the ancient English statutes this word is used to signify a printing-office, the art of printing, a print or impression. first of all. IMPRISON. To put in a prison; to put In a place of confinement To confine a person, or restrain his liberty, In any way. IMPRISONMENT. The act of putting or confining a man in prison; the restraint of a man's personal liberty; coercion exer cised upon a person to prevent the free exer cise of his powers of locomotion. State v. Shaw, 73 Vt 149, 50 Atl. 863; In re Langs low, 167 N. Y. 314, 60 N. E. 590; In re Langan (C. C) 123 Fed. 134; Steere v. Field, 22 Fed. Cas. 1221. It is not a necessary part of the definition that the confinement should be in a place usually appropriated to that purpose; it may be In a locality used only for the specific IMPRIMIS. Lat In the first place; IMPRIMERE. To press upon; to im press or press; to imprint or print.