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Oklahoma False Imprisonment & Shopkeeper’s Privilege

The essential elements of the tort of false imprisonment are (a) the detention of a person against his or her will and (b) the unlawfulness of the detention.  See Walters v. J.C. Penney Co., 82 P.3d 578, 583 (Okla. 2003).  At common law, a merchant who detained...