IMPRISONMENT

The act of putting -or confining a man in prison; the restraint of a man's personal liberty; coercion exercised upon a person to prevent the free exercise of his powers of locomotion. State v. Shaw, 73 Vt. 149, 50 Atl. 863; In re Langslow, 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 nece ary part of the definition that the confinement should be 1n a place usually appropriated to that purpose;,it may ·be In a locality used only for. the specific [s. 603]