false imprisonment

1. 1.

   (law) confinement without legal authority

   Broaderimprisonment

   law

Questions about false imprisonment

What does false imprisonment mean?

false imprisonment means "(law) confinement without legal authority".

Is false imprisonment a common word?

false imprisonment is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.