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What is a detainer?

What is a detainer? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will. A type of custody.
  2. One who detains.
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The detainee and the detainer, they cannot deny their common past which they spent in the same boat.
To engage any detainer in such useless, if not dangerous, dialogue only enables a captor to spend more time with the detainee.
Actual breaches of the peace include riotous and unlawful assemblies, riots, affrays, forcible entry and detainer, etc.
They also have original jurisdiction in forcible entry and detainer proceedings.
Finally, female clients were more likely to be released from the facility outright, either after completing a detainer sentence or posting bond.
A complaint must be made and the cause of detainer submitted to a judge before the writ can go.

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