includes the notion of restraint within some limits defined by a will or power exterior to our own".
93 It is not necessary that a man's person should be touched. Placing a party under the restraint of an officer, who holds a writ for his arrest, is an imprisonment, without proceeding to actual contact: READ: Grainger V. Hill, (1838) 4 Bing. Nc 212. Lord Atkin in Meering V. Graham White Aviation Co. Ltd, (1919) 122 Lt 44, 53 had this to say on imprisonment without knowledge or touching: A person could be imprisoned without his knowing it. A person can be imprisoned while he is asleep, while he is in a state of drunkenness, while he is a lunatic. Those are cases where the person might properly complain if he were imprisoned, though the imprisonment began and ceased while he was in that state. Of course, the damages might be diminished and would be affected by the question whether he was conscious of it or not. Investigate the remedies available for False Imprisonment: For instance, one may use force to release himself: Rowe V. Hawkins (1858) 1 F. & F. 91 . Professor Winfield defines False Imprisonment to be the infliction of bodily restraint which is not expressly or impliedly authorised by the law. The word
