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This is a follow up to this question about when someone can use force on another person. Are security guards or bouncers, such as at a concert or night club, given special privileges since they work at the venue?

Let's say there's a drunk person or someone starting a fight. I've seen bouncers put people in wrestling holds and throw them out. Is this legal because technically they are just removing them from the premises and there's no battery?

If security guards are allowed to do this then what's stopping a random jerk from throwing someone out of a grocery store by shoving them out?

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I'm based in England, but I'm sure the principle is similar in Canada.

The night club or concert venue is private property. When someone owns or rents private property one of the main things they are buying is the right to control who is present on that property, and generally they can use reasonable force to remove people who are not authorised.

Security guards generally act as agents for a property owner, tenant or similar.

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