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bird v. jones
DR. RAM MANOHAR LOHIYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, LUCKNOW
2012-13

FINAL DRAFT
ON

BIRD v JONES

Under The Guidance Of: Submitted by:
( ) ( ) Mr. Shashank Shekhar
Assistant Professor Roll no. 125
RMLNLU 1st Semester

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Firstly, I would like to thank respected Mr. SHASHANK SHEKHAR sir for giving me such a golden opportunity to show my skills through this project. This project is a result of an extensive research study, hard work and labour that has been put into to make it worth reading. I wish to acknowledge that in completing this project I had the full support of my friends as well as my teacher. This project would not have been completed without the help of my university’s library Dr. Madhu Limaye library and through the university’s internet.

CHAPTERISATION

INTRODUCTION

DETAILS OF THE CASE

STATEMENT OF FACTS

ISSUE

HOLDING AND RULE

REASONING

DISSENT

ANALYSIS

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INTRODUCTION:

False imprisonment consists in the imposition of the total restraint for some period, however short upon the liberty of another, without sufficient lawful justification.

To constitute this wrong, imprisonment in the ordinary sense is not required. When a person is deprived of his personal liberty, whether by being confined within the four walls or by being prevented from leaving the place where he is, it is false imprisonment.

If a man is restrained by a threat of force from leaving his own house or an open field, there is false imprisonment.

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Bibliography: Ratanlal and Djirajlal, ‘the law of torts’ 26th edition reprint 2010, Lexis Nexis Butterworths Wadhwa, Nagpur Winfield & Jolowicz, ‘Tort’, seventeenth edition, Sweet &Maxwell South Asian Edition

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