单词 | probable cause |
释义 | > as lemmasprobable cause probable cause n. reasonable cause or grounds (for following a particular course of action); esp. reasonable grounds to believe that a particular person has committed a crime, especially to justify making a search or preferring a charge (now chiefly U.S. Law). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > cause or reason > [noun] > reason or ground > reasonable grounds for making a search, etc. probable cause1536 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > grounds for charge reasonable cause1389 probable cause1536 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Apol. sig. O. viijv, in Confessyon Fayth Germaynes Without reasonable and probable cause nothinge be chaunged in the accustomed and vsuall ceremonies. a1676 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) II. xviii. 150 They are not to be granted without oath made before the justice of a felony committed, and that the party complaining hath probable cause to suspect they are in such a house or place, and do shew his reasons of such suspicion. 1789 J. Madison in Congress. Reg. 1 428 The rights of the people to be secured in their persons, their houses, their papers, and their other property from all unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated by warrants issued without probable cause. 1850 Calif. Sup. Court 1 11 The offence which..there is probable cause to suppose he has committed. 1928 U.S. Rep. (Supreme Court) 275 106 The liquor was obtained by a search and seizure instituted without warrant or probable cause. 1976 Washington Post 14 Dec. a18/2 Why should the United States, without even a whisper of probable cause, be bugging a dependent ward that had been formally delivered into its care by the United Nations? 1998 Bloomington (Indiana) Independent 3 Dec. 10/2 If an officer is not able to establish the probable cause necessary to search the person's car, but still suspects that the person in question might be in possession of contraband, they can detain the person and try to develop probable cause. < as lemmas |
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