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Warrant (legal)A warrant is a written legal document, issued by a judicial officer, directing a police officer to perform a specific action and affording said officer protection from damages if the act is performed. Warrants are typically issued by courts but can also be issued by Congress and other political entities. Typical warrants include: search warrants, arrest warrants, execution warrants.A typical arrest warrant will take the approximate form of: "This Court orders the Sheriff to find the named person, wherever he may be found, and deliver said person to the custody of the Court." See also: Writ I felt, completely should I give it the least encouragement.
away altogether. Here was my chance; there was no one to stop me;
It was only a question of hurrying again, for a few preparations,
the servants would practically have left unoccupied. No one,
What was it to get away if I got away only till dinner?
I had the acute prevision--my little pupils would play at
to worry us so--and take our thoughts off, too, don't you know?--
questions nor, as they asked them, their false little lovely eyes;
as the prospect grew sharp to me, I at last let myself go.
I got, so far as the immediate moment was concerned, away; I came straight
It seemed to me that by the time I reached the house I had made up my mind I
in which I met no one, fairly excited me with a sense of opportunity.
without a word. My quickness would have to be remarkable, however,
Tormented, in the hall, with difficulties and obstacles, I remember
on the lowest step and then, with a revulsion, recalling that it
and just so bowed with evil things, I had seen the specter of the most
the rest of the way up; I made, in my bewilderment, for the schoolroom,
But I opened the door to find again, in a flash, my eyes unsealed.
without my previous experience, I should have taken at
at home to look after the place and who, availing herself
table and my pens, ink, and paper, had applied herself
There was an effort in the way that, while her arms rested on
but at the moment I took this in I had already become aware that,
Then it was--with the very act of its announcing itself--
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