(a) complete restraint of a person's liberty (b) by another (c) by the use or threat of force or by confinement. Read: (I) Bird V. Jones (1845) 7 QB 742,752 ; (II) Syed Mahamad Yusuf-ud-din V. Secretary of State for India in Council, (1903) 30 Ia 154, 30 Cal. 872, 5 Bom. LR 490. The total restraint of the liberty of a person may be: (a) ACTUAL, i.e. physical, e.g. laying hands upon
92 a person; or, (b) Constructive, that is, by mere show of authority, for instance by an officer telling any one that he is wanted and making him or her to accompany him: Pocock V. Moore (1825) R. & M. 321. Detention for the purposes of the Tort of False Imprisonment, must be unlawful. In Bird V. Jones,(1845) 7 QB 742, 745 , Cateridge, J. Had this to say of the Tort of False Imprisonment: "A prison may have its boundary large or narrow, visible and tangible, or, though real, still in the conception only; it may itself be moveable or fixed: but a boundary it must have; and that boundary the party imprisoned must be prevented from passing; he must be prevented from leaving that place, within the ambit of which the party imprisoning would confine him, except by prison- breach. Some confusion seems to me to arise from confounding imprisonment of the body with mere loss of freedom: It is one part of the definition of freedom to be able to go withersoever one pleases; but imprisonment is something more than the mere loss of the power; it
