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31Arrest warrant — An arrest warrant is a warrant issued by and on behalf of the state, which authorizes the arrest and detention of an individual. Contents 1 Canada 2 United Kingdom 2.1 England and Wales 2.2 …
32Search warrant — A search warrant is a court order issued by a Magistrate, judge or Supreme Court Official that authorizes law enforcement officers to conduct a search of a person or location for evidence of a crime and to confiscate evidence if it is found.… …
33Execution warrant — Criminal procedure Criminal trials and convictions …
34search warrant — see warrant Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. search warrant …
35judicial writ — noun (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer • Syn: ↑writ • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Hypernyms: ↑legal document, ↑legal instrument, ↑ …
36Cape (writ) — In old British law, a cape was a judicial writ concerning a plea of lands and tenements; so called, as most writs are, from the word which carried the chief intention of the writ.The writ was divided into cape magnum , or the grand cape , and… …
37To serve a warrant — Serve Serve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Served}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Serving}.] [OE. serven, servien, OF. & F. servir, fr. L. servire; akin to servus a servant or slave, servare to protect, preserve, observe; cf. Zend har to protect, haurva protecting. Cf …
38Taney Arrest Warrant — The Taney Arrest Warrant is a recent conjectural controversy in Abraham Lincoln scholarship. The standard version of the story avers that in late May or early June 1861 President Lincoln secretly ordered an arrest warrant for Roger B. Taney, the… …
39search warrant — Synonyms and related words: bench warrant, capias, caveat, death warrant, domiciliary visit, dragnet, exploration, fieri facias, forage, frisk, habere facias possessionem, house search, hunt, hunting, injunction, interdict, mandamus, mandate,… …
40To serve a writ — Serve Serve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Served}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Serving}.] [OE. serven, servien, OF. & F. servir, fr. L. servire; akin to servus a servant or slave, servare to protect, preserve, observe; cf. Zend har to protect, haurva protecting. Cf …
