Law Dictionary Definitions

search warrant.Criminal law. A judge’s written order authorizing a law-enforcement officer to conduct a search of a specified place and to seize evidence. See Fed. R. Crim. P. 41. — Also termed search-and-seizure warrant. See WARRANT(1). [Cases: Searches and Seizures 101. C.J.S. Searches and Seizures §§ 128–132, 149.] anticipatory search warrant.A search warrant based on…

search report.Patents. A list of prior-art documents cited by the patent examiner during the patent application’s preliminary examination. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and straits. • Although sea lanes have obvious safety advantages, they were long resisted by sea…

search of patentability.See PATENTABILITY SEARCH. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and straits. • Although sea lanes have obvious safety advantages, they were long resisted by sea captains, who saw them as a threat to their freedom to navigate. [Blacks…

search incident to arrest.See protective search under SEARCH. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and straits. • Although sea lanes have obvious safety advantages, they were long resisted by sea captains, who saw them as a threat to their freedom…

search committee.See COMMITTEE. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and straits. • Although sea lanes have obvious safety advantages, they were long resisted by sea captains, who saw them as a threat to their freedom to navigate. [Blacks Law 8th]

search book.A lawbook that contains no statements of the law but instead consists of lists or tables of cases, statutes, and the like, used simply to help a researcher find the law. • Most indexes, other than index-digests, are search books. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships,…

search-and-seizure warrant.See SEARCH WARRANT. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and straits. • Although sea lanes have obvious safety advantages, they were long resisted by sea captains, who saw them as a threat to their freedom to navigate. [Blacks Law…

sea pass.See SEA LETTER. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and straits. • Although sea lanes have obvious safety advantages, they were long resisted by sea captains, who saw them as a threat to their freedom to navigate. [Blacks Law…

search,n.1.Criminal procedure. An examination of a person’s body, property, or other area that the person would reasonably be expected to consider as private, conducted by a law-enforcement officer for the purpose of finding evidence of a crime. • Because the Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches (as well as seizures), a search cannot ordinarily be conducted…

 seaman’s will.See soldier’s will under WILL. sea lane.Int’l & maritime law. A designated course or regularly used route for ships, esp. in restricted waters such as harbors and straits. • Although sea lanes have obvious safety advantages, they were long resisted by sea captains, who saw them as a threat to their freedom to navigate.…