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The common law tort of false imprisonment is defined as an unlawful restraint of an individual's personal liberty or freedom of locomotion. (Johnson v. Jackson (1963), 43 Ill. App. 2d 251, 258, 193 N.E.2d 485; Shelton v. Barry (1946), 328 Ill. App. 497, 506, 66 N.E.2d 697.) Imprisonment has been defined as 'any unlawful exercise or show of force by which a person is compelled to remain where he does not wish to remain or to go where he does not wish to go.' (McKendree v. Christy (1961), 29 Ill. App. 2d 195, 199, 172 N.E. 2d 380.) In order for a false imprisonment to be present, there must be actual or legal intent to restrain. Campbell v. Kaczmarek (1976), 39 Ill. App. 3d 465, 469, 350 N.E.2d 97.
Unlawful restraint may be effected by words alone, by acts alone or both (Hassenauer v. F. W. Woolworth Co. (1942), 314 Ill. App. 569, 41 N.E.2d 979 (abstract of opinion)); actual force is unnecessary to an action in false imprisonment. (Winans v. Congress Hotel Co. (1922), 227 Ill. App. 276, 282.) The Restatement of Torts specifies ways in which an actor may bring ...
