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Search warrant, an authority requiring the officer to whom it is addressed to search a house, or other place therein specified, for stolen property therein reasonably suspected to be, Larceny Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 96), s. 103. See Jones v. German, (1897) 1 QB 374.

A judge's written order authorising a law-enforce-ment officer to conduct a search of a specified place and to seize evidence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1353.