Definition: That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving
authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or
obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something
which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument
investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from
loss or damage; commission; authority.
Definition: A writing which authorizes a person to receive money or
other thing.
Definition: A precept issued by a magistrate authorizing an officer to
make an arrest, a seizure, or a search, or do other acts incident to
the administration of justice.
Definition: An official certificate of appointment issued to an
officer of lower rank than a commissioned officer. See Warrant officer,
below.
Definition: That which vouches or insures for anything; guaranty;
security.
Definition: That which attests or proves; a voucher.
Definition: Right; legality; allowance.
Definition: To make secure; to give assurance against harm; to
guarantee safety to; to give authority or power to do, or forbear to
do, anything by which the person authorized is secured, or saved
harmless, from any loss or damage by his action.
Definition: To support by authority or proof; to justify; to maintain;
to sanction; as, reason warrants it.
Definition: To give a warrant or warranty to; to assure as if by
giving a warrant to.
Definition: To secure to, as a grantee, an estate granted; to assure.
Definition: To secure to, as a purchaser of goods, the title to the
same; to indemnify against loss.
Definition: To secure to, as a purchaser, the quality or quantity of
the goods sold, as represented. See Warranty, n., 2.
Definition: To assure, as a thing sold, to the purchaser; that is, to
engage that the thing is what it appears, or is represented, to be,
which implies a covenant to make good any defect or loss incurred by
it.
