a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

some held in custody

The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation, The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril, recovery or preservation from loss or danger, verb_ free from harm or evil, To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint, To recover forcibly, transitive verb_ To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil, Law To remove (a person or property) from legal custody by force, in violation of the law, To cause to be free from danger, imprisonment, or difficulty; save. synonym_ save

To stop; check, To seize and hold under the authority of law, noun_ The act of detaining in legal custody, The state of being so detained