sentences:  Shopkeeper's privilege
  
  Shopkeeper's privilege is a law recognized in some parts of the United States under which a shopkeeper is allowed to detain a suspected shoplifter on store property for a reasonable period of time, so long as the shopkeeper has cause to believe that the person detained in fact committed, or attempted to commit, theft of store property.The privilege to detain, although recognized in many jurisdictions, is not as broad as a police officer's privilege to arrest.