Kidnapping

Definition - Noun
: an act or instance or the crime of seizing, confining, inveigling, abducting, or carrying away a person by force or fraud often with a demand for ransom or in furtherance of another crime



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criminal assault

an assault considered as a crime rather than as a tort


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