house search
Dwelling investigation warrant
A house search is an inspection of a residence by authorities, typically police, looking for evidence, contraband, or fugitives.
In legal contexts, house searches often require warrants and raise constitutional questions about privacy and government intrusion: The house search turned up illegal firearms.
Also called a home search.
- warrantFormal authorization document
- probable causeLegal threshold for searches
- raidSudden armed incursion
- inspectionFormal assessment of condition
- propertySomething owned or inherent
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- policingpatrol, police powers, arrests, police officer, arrest
- searchesseek, hunt, quest, find, locate
- Stasi operationsStasi, state security, secret police, informants, political arrests
formality/authority of entry
house searchdropping by
Visiting informally, briefly
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