What is the common law right of citizen's arrest in common law?
"New York", United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Page, 126 N.Y.S.3d 67, 149 N.E.3d 905, 35 N.Y.3d 199 (N.Y. 2020):
In the United States, some states recognized a common law right of citizen's arrest, Massachusetts doing so in 1850 (see Rohan v. Sawin, 59 Mass. 281 [1850] ). Again, clear lines were drawn between the principles authorizing citizen's
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