Search warrants by country

The warrant that lets the police into a house to look for stolen goods, and bring back whoever kept them. For the cellar door the investigators cannot open themselves.

Bearer prints it for 2 offices: State of New York, United Kingdom. Each is read off a document of the time or reconstructed on the country's law, and says which.

Bearer makes an investigator's papers for Call of Cthulhu and any 1920s or 1930s tabletop campaign: the passport a consul would have filled in, with the visas and frontier stamps a campaign leaves in it, and the permits, certificates and tickets of the period, to print or to share.

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Each version in full

• The English search warrant

Sources

• Matthew Bender & Co., Albany; Cornell University Library copy on the Internet Archive, New York Code of Criminal Procedure, as printed in Bender's Justices' Manual (1921): §§ 150-153 (the warrant of arrest) and §§ 791-811 (search warrants), § 151: a warrant of arrest is an order in writing in the name of the people, signed by a magistrate, commanding the arrest of the defendant, substantially in this form: County of …; In the name of the people of the State of New York, to any peace officer in the …: Information, upon oath, having been this day laid before me that the crime of … has been committed and accusing … thereof, You are therefore commanded forthwith to arrest the above-named … and bring him before … at …; Dated at … this … day of …, 19..; … Justice of the Peace; § 152: the name or description of the defendant, the offense, the time and the town, signed with the magistrate's name of office; § 791: a search warrant is an order in writing, in the name of the people, signed by a magistrate, directed to a peace officer, commanding him to search for personal property and bring it before the magistrate; § 792: stolen or embezzled property, property used to commit a felony, or held to commit a public offense; § 793: only upon probable cause supported by affidavit; § 797: the form (To any peace officer in the county of …, proof by affidavit having been this day made before me, by …, that …; You are therefore commanded in the day time [or at any time of the day or night] to make immediate search … for the following property: …, and if you find the same, or any part thereof, to bring it forthwith before me at …; Dated at …, the … day of …; …, Justice of the peace) (read directly)
• Butterworth & Co.; on the Internet Archive (Middle Temple Library copy), Oke's Magisterial Formulist, tenth edition, by S. E. Major, joint clerk to the justices at Barrow-in-Furness (Butterworth, 1922), Indictable offences, chap. I, forms 4 and 5, pp. 468-469: Information to ground Search Warrant for Stolen Goods (… hath a reasonable cause to suspect, and doth suspect, that A. B. has in his possession [or on his premises] the said property on or with respect to which the said offence has been committed) and Search Warrant for Stolen Goods, under the Larceny Acts, 1861 and 1916, s. 42 (To each and all of the constables of the parish of …, in the [county] of …: … These are therefore to command you, in His Majesty's name, forthwith, with proper assistance, to enter the said dwelling-house and premises … in the daytime, and there diligently search for the said goods; and if the same, or any part thereof, shall be found upon such search, that you bring the goods so found, and also the body of the said A. B., before me, or some other of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace … to be disposed of and dealt with according to law). The book is the forms a justices' clerk wrote out, the Act of 1848 declaring forms to the same effect good (s. 28) (read directly)
• Parliament of the United Kingdom; the Act as enacted at legislation.gov.uk, Larceny Act, 1916 (6 & 7 Geo. 5 c. 50), section 42, s. 42(1): if it is made to appear by information on oath before a justice of the peace that there is reasonable cause to believe that any person has in his custody or possession or on his premises any property whatsoever, with respect to which any offence against this Act has been committed, the justice may grant a warrant to search for and seize the same; s. 42(2): a constable authorised in writing by a chief officer of police may enter and search the premises of a person convicted of receiving or of harbouring thieves within twelve months (read directly)
• Parliament of the United Kingdom; text at legislation.gov.uk, Indictable Offences Act, 1848 (11 & 12 Vict. c. 42), Schedule, Form (B.): Warrant to apprehend a Person charged with an indictable Offence, To the Constable of … and to all other Peace Officers in the said [County] of …; Whereas A.B. of … [Labourer] hath this Day been charged upon Oath before the undersigned, [One] of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of …, for that he on … at … did [stating shortly the Offence]: These are therefore to command you, in Her Majesty's Name, forthwith to apprehend the said A.B., and to bring him before [me], or some other of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the said [County], to answer unto the said Charge, and to be further dealt with according to Law. Given under my Hand and Seal, this … Day of … in the Year of our Lord … at … in the [County] aforesaid. J.S. (L.S.) (read directly)

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