All 7 Uses of
warrant
in
Bleak House
- From the master upon whose impaling files reams of dusty warrants in Jarndyce and Jarndyce have grimly writhed into many shapes, down to the copying-clerk in the Six Clerks' Office who has copied his tens of thousands of Chancery folio-pages under that eternal heading, no man's nature has been made better by it.†
Chpt 1-3
- In his chambers Mr. Tulkinghorn sits meditating an application to the nearest magistrate to-morrow morning for a warrant.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Nothing particular," says Bucket; "only having allowed his temper to get a little the better of him and having been threatening some respectable people, he is keeping out of the way of a warrant I have got against him—which it's a pity that a man of sense should do."†
Chpt 22-24
- My name's Bucket, as you are aware, and I have got a peace-warrant against Gridley.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- You'll lose your temper with the whole round of 'em, again and again; and I shall take you on a score of warrants yet, if I have luck."†
Chpt 22-24
- Very well, then; here's this warrant got by Mr. Tulkinghorn of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and backed into half-a-dozen counties since.†
Chpt 22-24
- What do you say to coming along with me, upon this warrant, and having a good angry argument before the magistrates?†
Chpt 22-24
Definition:
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(warrant as in: has a warrant to...) a document (granting the right to do something)for example:
- a document signed by a judge giving police the right to search a home
- a document signed by a judge giving police the right to arrest someone
- a document giving someone the right to buy stock shares at a given price by a given date
- a voucher documenting the right to receive payment