Custody

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..... le waiting to go to court for trial. Longman Dictionary (online) defines- * custody as 'when someone is kept in prison until they go to court, because the police think they have committed a crime'. Chambers Dictionary (online) clarifies that- * custody is 'the condition of being held by the police; arrest or imprisonment; to take someone into custody to arrest them'. Chambers' Thesaurus supp .....

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..... sists of the detention or restraint of a person against his or her will, or of the exercise of control over another to confine the other person within certain physical limits or a restriction of ability or freedom of movement.' This is how 'Custody' is dealt with in Black's Law Dictionary, (9th ed. 2009):- "Custody- The care and control of a thing or person. The keeping, guarding, care, watch, i .....

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..... nymous with restraint of liberty. U. S. ex rel. Wirtz v. Sheehan, D.C.Wis, 319 F.Supp. 146, 147. Accordingly, persons on probation or released on own recognizance have been held to be "in custody" for purposes of habeas corpus proceedings." A perusal of the dictionaries thus discloses that the concept that is created is the controlling of a person's liberty in the course of a criminal investigati .....

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