general warrant

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general warrant (plural general warrants)

  1. (law, now historical) A warrant issued without naming any specific person, which can be issued to anyone suspected of an offence.
    • 2016, Peter Ackroyd, Revolution, Pan Macmillan, published 2017, page 200:
      Wilkes himself was placed in the Tower, but in two appearances in Westminster Hall at the beginning of May he denounced general warrants as illegal […].
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