Section 254 - Wrongful restraint defined.

(1) Whoever voluntarily obstructs a person so as to prevent that person from proceeding in a direction in which that person has a right to proceed, is said to restrain that person wrongfully.

(2) The obstruction of a private way over land or water which a person in good faith believes himself to have a lawful right to obstruct, is not within the meaning of this section.

Illustration

A obstructs a path along which Z has a right to pass, A not believing in good faith that he has a right to stop the path. Z is thereby prevented from passing. A wrongfully restrains Z.