Section 255 - Wrongful confinement defined.

Whoever wrongfully restrains a person in such a manner as to prevent lent that person from proceeding beyond certain circumscribing limits, is said to confine that person wrongfully.

Illustration

(a) A causes Z to go within a walled space, and locks Z in. Z is thus prevented from proceeding in any direction beyond the circumscribing line of wall. A wrongfully confines Z.

(b) A places men with firearms at the outlets of a building and tells Z that they will fire at Z if Z attempts to leave the building. A wrongfully confines Z.