Detainer

Quick meaning: Detainer is a noun meaning (law) The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will; a type of custody.

Meaning

(law) The right to keep a person, or a person's goods or property, against his will; a type of custody.

More Meanings

1. One who detains.

Example Sentences

[…] he chatted gaily with his fair detainer, showing no inclination to escape from the bondage in which she sought to retain him.

On Monday, the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency placed a similar detainer on Melvin Jovel, 18, who on Sunday was the sixth person to be arrested in the case.

Officer Torres’s lawyer, Paul S. Missan, said on Saturday that he had been told by a prison official in Pennsylvania that a detainer was lodged against his client, meaning he was likely to face federal charges.

Through January, immigration authorities placed detainers on an additional 1,468 people — giving federal agents the right to hold suspects who are released from jail. […] Scott Weber, the field office director for the enforcement office in Newark, said that in roughly a third of the cases, his agency would file a detainer or immigration charges; another third involved individuals who could be deported after their court cases; and the rest might be United States citizens or legal residents.

Word Forms

• detainers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include detainder, retention, detention, retainer, distraint, custody.

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