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custody
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custody

The state of being held in confinement by the police or prison authorities. Following an arrest, a person may either be kept in custody or released on bail.



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Both Rumsfeld and Kissinger have been known to contact foreign states to make sure they wouldn't be detained during a visit; detainment, and what it stands for, could prey on their minds.
Universal jurisdiction and the Bush administration by Gutierrez, Donald / The Humanist
In other cases, lengthy detainment of innocents abetted the enemy's recruitment efforts.
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26) Detainment of goods as a surety for good behavior was a common tool imposed by the manorial courts to maintain order in the community.
Runaway wives: husband desertion in medieval England by Butler, Sara / Journal of Social History
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