Search Warrant
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Meaning of Search Warrant
A warrant issued under authority of law by a magistrate or Justice of the peace or any person by law empowered to issue the same, directed to a sheriff , constable or other officer commanding the latter to search a specified premises and seize certain specified goods or documents. See Search. except in a few specifically established and well delineated exceptions, which are jealously and carefully drawn, a search and seizure may not be made without a search warrant. See Coolidge v New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 91 S.Ct. 2022, 29 L.Ed.2d 564.
Search Warrant Alternative Definition
In practice. A warrant requiring the officer to whom it is addressed to search a house, or other place, therein specified, for stolen, contraband or illicit property therein, and, if the same shall be found upon such search, to bring the goods so found, together with the body of the person occupying the same, who is named, before the justice or other officer granting the warrant, or some other justice of the peace, or other lawfully authorized officer.
Synonyms of Search Warrant
noun
authority to search
bench warrant
court order
judicial order to search
judicial process
legal document to search
legal order
legal process
order authorizing a search
process
writ
Associated Concepts: illegal search warrant
probable cause to issue search warrant
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Translate Search Warrant from English to Spanish
Translation of Search Warrant , with examples. More about free online translation into Spanish of Orden o mandamiento de registro and other legal terms is available here.
Orden o mandamiento de registro
Orden de registro
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Orden de allanamiento
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Meaning of Search Warrant in the U.S. Legal System
Definition of Search Warrant published by the Natio nal Association for Court Management: A written order issued by a judge that directs a law enforcement officer to search a specific area for a particular piece of evidence.
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