detainer

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Examples

• Lisa Halverstadt broke the news that lenders who facilitated the city’s downtown lease filed an unlawful detainer action on Tuesday, creating uncertainty for more than a dozen city departments and about 850 employees who work in the high rise.

• Still, she expected the city will find ways to drag out its eviction case, including perhaps proposing to consolidate the unlawful detainer case with its recently filed legal actions.

• Even with the moratoriums in place, some evictions – or unlawful detainers – have been filed in court and could be an indication of the evictions on the horizon once the bans are lifted.

• Immigration detainers are commonly used by immigration enforcement officials when someone without immigration status is in the custody of another law enforcement agency, like a county sheriff.

• It also helps if your party opponent is seriously flawed (as Joe Miller, detainer of pesky journalists, proved himself to be).

• As for the detainer against me, I was obliged to go through the court for the relief of insolvent debtors.

• The first words in his argument were: "It is incumbent on me to justify the detainer of the negro."

• A resolution highly commended by a lawyer then in the yard, who declared Mr Tow-wouse might justify the detainer.

• Peter lodged a detainer against the change, as he wanted his hair cut and a box of vegetable pills—so he said.

• His first words were: 'It is incumbent on me to justify Captain Knowles's detainer of the negro.'