IMPRISONMENT.

The act of putting or confining a man in prison; the restraint of a man's personal liberty;
coercion exercised upon a person 889 IMPRISONMENT to prevent the free exercise of his powers of locomotion.
State v. Shaw, 73 Vt. 149, 50 A. 863. 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 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 available force. Pike v. Hanson, 9 N.H. 491. Every confinement of the person is an
"imprisonment," whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or in the stocks, or even by forcibly
detaining one in the public streets. Norton v. Mathers, 222 Iowa 1170, 271 N.W. 321, 324. False imprisonment
The unlawful arrest 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.
Eberling v. State, 136 Ind. 117, 35 N.E. 1023. False imprisonment consists in the unlawful detention of the person
of another, for any length of time, whereby he is deprived of his personal liberty. Mahan v. Adam, 144 Md. 355, 124
A. 901, 904. The unlawful detention of the occupant of an automobile may be accomplished by driving so rapidly
that he cannot alight. Blashfleld, Cyc. of Automobile Law and Prac., Perm.Ed., § 5528.26. The term is also used as
the name of the action which lies for this species of injury. 3 Bl.Comm. 138; Buttrey v. Wilhite, 208 Ala 573. 94 So.
585; Christ v. McDonald, 152 Or. 494, 52 P.2d 655, 658