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aid, deliver, disenthrall, disimprison, emancipate, exsolvere, extricate, free, free from confinement, free from danger, let escape, let out, liberare, liberate, manumit, preserve, ransom, recapture, reclaim, recover, redeem, release, retake, retrieve, safeguard, salvage, save, set free, set loose, take to safety, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unloose, unshackle, untrammel
associated concepts: Good Samaritan laws, rescue doctrine
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aid (help), aid, clear, disencumber, disenthrall, extricate, free, help, liberate, liberation, palliate (excuse), preserve, quit (free of), ransom, recovery (repossession), redeem (repurchase), redemption, relief (aid), salvage
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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v.To save someone or something from danger or destruction.n.rescue
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc. Amy Hackney Blackwell. 2008.
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n. The aiding of someone who is in immediate and serious peril; the unlawful release (usually by force) of a person who is legally imprisoned or under arrest.
Webster's New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000.
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The crime of forcibly and knowingly freeing another from arrest, imprisonment, or legal custody.In admiralty and maritime law, the taking back of property seized as prize from the possession of the captors by the party who originally lost it.
Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.
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The crime of forcibly and knowingly freeing another from arrest, imprisonment, or legal custody.In admiralty and maritime law, the taking back of property seized as prize from the possession of the captors by the party who originally lost it.
Short Dictionary of (mostly American) Legal Terms and Abbreviations.
