search warrantn.
/ˈsəːtʃ ˌwɒrənt/, /ˈsəːtʃ ˌwɒrn̩t/, U.S. /ˈsərtʃ ˌwɔrənt/ A legal document authorizing a police officer or other official to search premises for evidence of a crime.
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search warrant1700
society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > warrant > types of warrant
searchery1541
letter (also commission, gift) of searchery1566
reprieve1602
bench warrant1680
death warrant1692
fastener1699
search warrant1700
lettre de cachet1715
capital commitment1742
peace warrant1772
speciality1815
fugie-warrant1816
arrest warrant1824
1700 Capt. Charles Newy's Case 2 The grand Jury found the Bill and I had a search Warrant, which I deferr'd serving, in hopes he would forbear speaking Ill of me.
1739 W. Stephens Jrnl. 26 Mar. in Jrnl. Proc. Georgia (1742) I. 446 It was thought proper to send out several Officers with a search Warrant.
1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. iii. xi. 269 I believe I should have applied to a Magistrate for a Search-warrant for that Picture.
1834 Boston Morning Post 5 Feb. Matthew King..obtained a search warrant, to enable him to inspect the miscellanies contained in an old junk-store.
1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xiv. 206 He's gone for a peeler and a search warrant to break open the door.
1950 J. Lait & L. Mortimer Chicago Confidential iii. xxxii. 275 There are no laws against keeping any kind of an arsenal in your home or even in your car. Cops can't pinch you, even on the street, without a search warrant.
1998 ‘Bez’ Freaky Dancin' (2000) 33 I got the shout from my mate that the bizzies had been round his house with a search warrant, askin loads of ominous questions about my whereabouts.
2011 N.Y. Mag. 5 Sept. 104/2 The act made it easier..to execute search warrants without immediately informing their targets.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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