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warrant
warrant [Anglo-French warant garant protector, guarantor, authority, authorization, of Germanic origin] 1 : warranty [an implied of fitness] 2 : a commission or document giving authority to do something: as a : an order from one person (as an official) to another to pay public funds to a designated person b : a writ issued esp. by a judicial official (as a magistrate) authorizing an officer (as a sheriff) to perform a specified act required for the administration of justice [a of arrest] [by of commitment] administrative warrant : a warrant (as for an administrative search) issued by a judge upon application of an administrative agency anticipatory search warrant : a search warrant that is issued on the basis of an affidavit showing probable cause that there will be certain evidence at a specific location at a future time called also anticipatory warrant arrest warrant : a warrant issued to a law enforcement officer ordering the officer to arrest and bring the person named i...
fugitive from justice warrant
fugitive from justice warrant : fugitive warrant at warrant ...
Fugitive offenders
Fugitive offenders. Where a person accused of any offence punishable by imprisonment with hard labour for twelve months or more, has left that part of his Majesty's dominions where the offence is alleged to have been committed, he is liable, if found in any other part of his Majesty's dominions, to be apprehended and returned in manner provided by the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, to the part from which he is a fugitive; the Acthas been amended by the Fugitive Offenders (Protected States) Act, 1915. See R. v. Brixton Prison (Governor), (1907) 1 KB 696; and see EXTRADI-TION...
Fugitive
Fleeing from pursuit danger restraint etc escaping from service duty etc as a fugitive solder a fugitive slave a fugitive debtor...
Fugitation
Fugitation. In Scotland, when a criminal does not obey the citation to answer, the Court pronounces sentence of fugitation against him, which induces a forfeiture of goods and chattels to the Crown.A sentence or declaration of fugitive status that was pronounced against an accused person for failing to answer a citation and appear, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 680....
Surrender of fugitives
Surrender of fugitives. Penal laws of foreign countries are strictly local, and affect nothing more than they can reach and can be seized by virtue of their authority. A fugitive who passes hither comes with all his transitory rights. He may recover money held for his use, and stock, obligations, and the like; and cannot be affected in this country by proceedings against him in that which he has left, beyond the limits of which such proceedings do not extend. 'The lex loci must needs govern all criminal jurisdiction, from the nature of the thing and the purpose of the jurisdiction.', Warrender v. Warrender, (1834) 9 Bligh 119. See EXTRADITION...
Warrant of Attorney
Warrant of Attorney, a written authority addressed to one or more solicitors to appear for the party executing it, and receive a statement of claim for him in an action at the suit of a person therein mentioned, and thereupon to confess the same, or to suffer judgment to pass by default and to permit judgment to be entered up against him. The practice of giving warrants of attorney is seldon resorted to. A warrant of attorney may be executed as a security for the performance of any agreement between the parties; but it does not extinguish an original debt, or affect the right to sue upon it, unless judgment has been signed, for until this is done it is merely a collateral security. It is usual to make the warrant subject to be defeated on the performance of certain conditions, and when this is the case, they are set forth in an agreement hence called the defeasance.The Debtors Act, 1869, contains various provisions in regard to warrants of attorney, e.g., they must be executed in the p...
Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace
Backing a warrant of a justice of the peace. Formerly, where a warrant which had been granted in one jurisdiction was required to be executed in another, as where a felony had been committed in one county and the offender was lurking in another county, then, on proof of the handwriting of the justice who granted the warrant, a justice in such other county endorsed his name on the back of it, and thus gave authority to execute the warrant in such other county. See Indictable Offences Act, 1848, ss. 11-15, and later Acts. Now by the (English) Criminal Justice Act, 1925, a warrant lawfully issued by a justice of the peace may be executed anywhere in England and Wales.A warrant issued by a metropolitan police magistrate in respect of an offence committed within the metropolitan police district may be executed in England and Wales by any constable to whom it is addressed without backing (2 & 3 Vict. c. 71, s. 17). See METROPOLITAN POLICE MAGISTRATES....
fugitive
fugitive : a person who flees ;esp : a person who flees one jurisdiction (as a state) for another in order to elude law enforcement personnel ...
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