Noun | 1. | warrant - a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts |
2. | warrant - a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price; "as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities" Synonyms: stock warrant, stock-purchase warrant | |
3. | warrant - formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" | |
4. | warrant - a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications | |
Verb | 1. | warrant - show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means" Synonyms: justify |
2. | warrant - stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information" Synonyms: guarantee |
ESCAPE, WARRANT. A warrant issued in England against a person who being charged in custody in the king's bench or Fleet prison, in execution or mesne process, escapes and goes at large. Jacob's L. D. h.t.
WARRANT, crim. law, Practice. A writ issued by a justice of the peace or
other authorized officer, directed to a constable or other proper person,
requiring him to arrest a person therein named, charged with committing some
offence, and to bring him before that or some other justice of the peace.
2. It should regularly be made under the hand and seal of the justice
and dated. No warrant ought to be issued except upon the oath or affirmation
of a witness charging the defendant with, the offence. 3 Binn. Rep. 88.
3. The reprehensible practice of issuing blank warrants which once
prevailed in England, was never adopted here. 2 Russ. on Cr. 512; Ld. Raym.
546; 1 Salk. 175; 1 H. Bl. R. 13; Doct. Pl. 529; Wood's Inst. 84; Com. Dig.
Forcible Entry, D 18, 19; Id. Imprisonment, H 6,; Id. Pleader, 3 K 26; Id.
Pleader, 3 M 23. Vide Search warrant.
4. A bench warrant is a process granted by a court authorizing a proper
officer to apprehend and bring before it some on charged with some contempt,
crime or misdemeanor. See Bench warrant.
5. A search warrant is a process issued by a competent court or officer
authorizing an officer therein named or described, to examine a house or
other place for the purpose of finding goods which it is alleged have been
stolen. See Search warrant.