DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Civ. § 13.8
False Imprisonment Defined
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
A person who intentionally causes the improper confinement of another
person against [his/her] will is responsible to that person for all harm caused by the
confinement. A confinement is improper when the person detained has not
consented to it and the person causing the confinement was not privileged to do so.
Confinement means a restriction within the boundaries fixed by another from
which the restricted person knows of no reasonable means of escape. A reasonable
means of escape is an escape by which a person would run no risk of harm to self or
property. A confinement may be accomplished by actual or apparent physical
barriers, actual physical force, threats of physical force, or any other form of duress
or coercion.
The requirement of imprisonment means that the restraint must be a total
one and not merely preventing someone from going where he or she pleases.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- civ-2025-10-22
- Content hash
32f8b5d9c967acdf0dc9ae22b09928b231cbf4c48092e322cc03b40057daf345
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