berövande

Berövande is a Swedish noun meaning deprivation, the act of taking something away from another person. The most common use concerns deprivation of liberty, but the term can also describe deprivation of other things such as property or rights. The related verb is beröva, and the past participle berövad is used in phrases like berövad frihet or berövade sina rättigheter. In everyday language, berövande denotes any situation in which someone is deprived of something against their will.

In legal language the expression berövande av frihet is used to describe the act of unlawfully restricting a person’s freedom. A more specific term is olaga frihetsberövande, which denotes unlawful deprivation of liberty and is considered a criminal offense in Sweden. The concept appears in Swedish civil and criminal law and focuses on the unlawfulness of the act and the degree of restraint or violence involved.

Etymology-wise, berövande derives from the verb beröva, meaning to deprive, with roots in Old Norse and related Germanic forms cognate with similar terms in other languages. The word is closely connected to related phrases such as frihetsberövande (deprivation of liberty) and berövande av egendom (deprivation of property), which illustrate the broad application of the term across different contexts.

See also: Swedish criminal law, olaga frihetsberövande, beröva, frihetsberövande.